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‘White Monkey’ jobs are an easy means of earning for foreign students in China, but they are completely illegal. – Symbolic photo
An illegal trend called ‘White Monkey’ is growing rapidly in China’s corporate world. Under this, companies are hiring foreigners by paying huge amounts to make their domestic products and brands international. In many cases, they are made fake doctors, scientists, lawyers, chefs and even fake foreign CEOs just on the basis of their ‘non-Chinese’ face without any experience.
Recruitment takes place through secret groups on WeChat. Many companies also use them in serious professional meetings. During a big deal, Pierce was made to sit in the meeting in Pudong’s Hi-Tech Park by making him an ‘International Lawyer’.
There he just pretended to take notes. Similarly, Russian citizen Enzo was made a fake foreign CEO of an automobile company and was taken around to different cities for months. According to the report, companies pay Russians and Europeans 2 to 3 times less than German or American citizens.
Craze for foreign faces increased after the food scandal of 2008
It was told that after the adulterated milk and food scandal in 2008, people’s trust in household items weakened. Millions of children fell ill and 6 died due to melamine being found in Sanlu Company’s infant milk powder. After this, people started considering advertisements with foreign faces as a guarantee of quality and safety.
Chinese products got prestige from faces all over the world
According to Professor Xiaobing Wang of Manchester China Institute, people consider the Chinese star’s choice to be just local. But when in the year 2025, legendary former footballer David Beckham posted a photo with the Chinese toy ‘Labubu’, it went viral. Global faces like Beckham give Chinese products real legitimacy and prestige in the world.
‘White Monkey’ jobs illegal for foreign students
‘White monkey’ jobs are an easy way to earn money for foreign students in China, but they are completely illegal. According to the law, doing such work on student visa can result in a fine of around Rs 70 thousand to Rs 2 lakh, jail up to 15 days and deportation. In a similar case, a Ugandan student had to face heavy fine and deportation for being taught illegally.
Fake ‘professor’ exposed, investigation started
Recently, live-streaming influencer ‘Xiangyi’ was caught for fraud. To promote vitamins, he had described foreign model ‘Linda’ as a professor of Sydney University. Investigation revealed that he had read the script by taking only Rs 71 thousand. The authority is investigating the matter.
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