Shanghai-based Juneyao Airlines was penalized last year after a foreign captain it hired refused to give way for an emergency landing of a Qatar Airlines flight. The incident triggered heated debate.
Quote from the article. If my intel was correct this was a Korean pilot that did this; flying for a Chinese airline.
"Some skilled and experienced foreign pilots will continue working for Chinese airlines, and they will become the backbone of these carriers. Some of the less skilled foreign pilots will be gradually phased out."
Kind of like flying with the Koreans as most of the time you are single-piloted. And then, to top it off, when you get into Western countries where the english is spoken and high density air traffic, not only are you single piloted, you are handling the radios as well. This is an unforgiving business and they will learn the hard way. And learn again, and again. But hell, who cares, they have over a billion people, what is a few thousand.