The presidential cabinet is a group of appointed officers of the executive branch of the government. Members of the cabinet is usually nominated by the commander in chief and must be confirmed by the legislative branch of the government. The role of the cabinet is to advise the president on any subject matter that requires expertise of the cabinet. Commonly, these matters are related to the office of the cabinet the president is referring to.
China didn't have anything to do with citizenship, cities like Athens and Sparta had laws about citizenship and what a citizen could do and what a non-citizen could and couldn't do. China didn't have anything like that at the time/\.