I used to get excited when I would see a topic with so many posts. I would click looking forward to a diversity of thoughts and ideas. Now I realize that it's consistently a few people hurling insults. Oh well. Time to move on.

Practically speaking, ITs outside of China aren't allowed back in and most likely won't be any time too soon. There are IS Head of Schools and other admin outside of China that can't get in right now. It's always possible that things will change over the next few months here but if you're a foreign passport holder IT outside of China, you're not coming back in the near future. Things here can change quickly. Hopefully all of those policies will change before August and flights will start up again, but for the near future, no go.