refugees - The unsolvable problem

The latest from diplomatic circles in China. The agreement between the European countries and China on Chinese tourist groups only has the status of a MOU, a Memorandum of Understanding. One of the pending issues is indeed the way China deals with taking back citizens that stay back illegally in Europe.
"Getting a birth certificate or other proof of an identity is not really a problem, when people really want to go back," says one of my sources in Shanghai. "The problem is of course that many do not want to return. When they give a wrong name, a wrong birth date and a wrong place of birth, it will be hard to get a birth certificate. When they want it can be done in two weeks time."
People's hukou, or household registration is cleared after three years of absence, and some use that as an excuse, but other proofs of identity can easily be obtained.
For the MOU on Chinese tourists Europe is on the demanding side, they want to have this extra source of revenue for their economies. There are no signs at this stage that China really want to help in taking unwilling returnees back, for whatever reason they might have left the country.
And the European countries are going to give in, for economic reasons.