[river rat]

I was shocked by the number of our Engineers sent to China for assignments running for 1 to 6 months — who ended up marrying their “girl friends”....

The working girls must be targeting foreigners - especially Americans - to get them out of China and to the world they see only on television and the movies..

[wardaddy]

marrying a whore is a fool's bargain

[Dutch Boy]

The same thing happens on nearly every overseas US military base. As we used to say, they are looking for the land of the “Great PX.”

[KayEyeDoubleDee]

Are these marriages generally successful?

Or is it difficult to predict?

NCIS did an episode about this a while back:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0658005/