Thousands flee Hong Kong for UK, fearing China crackdown

[turbinetree]

an hour ago

LONDON (AP) — Cindy had a comfortable lifestyle in Hong Kong: she owned several properties with her husband, they had a good business going. But last year she made up her mind to leave it all behind and move her family to Britain, and not even a global pandemic was going to sway her decision.

“To uproot ourselves like this is definitely not easy. But things got uglier last year, the government was really driving us away,” said the businesswoman and mother of two young children who didn’t give her family name because she feared repercussions for speaking out against the Chinese government. “Everything we value - freedom of speech, fair elections, liberties - has been eroded. It’s no longer the Hong Kong we knew, it’s no longer somewhere we can call home.”

Cindy, who landed in London last week, is one of thousands of Hong Kongers fleeing their hometown since Beijing imposed a draconian national security law on the territory last summer.

https://apnews.com/article/lifestyle-beijing-hong-kong-coronavirus-pandemic-china-7d3497f187a251a9ca7655fce308c470

Why again do capitalists do business in China? I guess they can't or do not know how to put themselves in those shoes, it is only about greed

[roamer65]

1. UK, Canada, Australia and the US.

Thousands are going to flee and we need to welcome them with open arms.

[TeamPooka]

2. should have started leaving in 1999

[Vivienne235729]

6. They did. All the moneys were moved out a few years before the transfer.

And many people did leave.

[dalton99a]

3. Xi Jinping is quickly becoming the most despised dictator in modern Chinese history.

He is already as much an asshole as Putin and Kim Jong-un on the world stage

[WA-03 Democrat]

5. All on the same team

MBS, Bolasario and Trump

[Cicada]

4. Why do business in China? 1.4 billion potential customers

As income rises in China more of them can afford to buy nuts, not just rice. Why wouldn’t California walnut and almond producers want to expand their acreage to sell nuts to Chinese consumers? General Motors already sells more vehicles in China than in the US. And the Chinese market will get bigger and bigger. The Chinese love the Oldsmobile brand because an emperor once drove in an Oldsmobile, making it appear luxurious. Why not open a factory there to manufacture a million Oldsmobiles? It’s an easy billion dollar profit per year.