Hong Kong families, fearing a reign of terror, prepare to flee the city

WaPo ^ | 06-15-2020 | Rachel Cheung

[NRx]

HONG KONG — China's Communist Party has haunted Leung's family for generations.

Her father, Guo Yao, fled forced labor and the violent purges of the Cultural Revolution for a better life in Hong Kong, where he arrived with his wife in 1973 to find relative freedom and prosperity.

Years later, as his family watched the ceremony marking Hong Kong's 1997 handover from Britain to China, his then-teenage daughter had a premonition.

“I thought to myself, maybe one day we will have to run away from the Chinese Communist Party again,” said Leung, now 36. “I just didn’t imagine it would be this soon.”

Now, 17 years after the death of her father — whose name means “glory to the nation” in Mandarin — Leung is preparing to flee Hong Kong. A new law approved by the Communist Party to take effect this summer will allow China’s powerful state security agencies to operate in the territory, paving the way for political purges and intimidation of government critics by secret police. Officials are pushing to impose party propaganda in schools.

With their political freedoms deteriorating, nurses, lawyers, business people and other skilled workers are rushing to renew documents that could provide a pathway to residency in Britain, or finding ways to emigrate to Taiwan, Canada or Australia.

Applications for police certificates required to emigrate soared almost 80 percent to nearly 21,000 in the latter half of 2019 from a year earlier, even before the advent of the security law, coinciding with a crackdown on pro-democracy protests. Animal rescue groups have reported an increase in surrendered dogs as their owners leave Hong Kong. Protesters fearing persecution have sought refuge in Germany, the Netherlands and United States.

[ifinnegan]

Got to feet rid of the ChiComs.

[Buckeye McFrog]

This was utterly predictable. They should have fled 23 years ago.

[cherry]

why not America?...why does America only get the low IQ somalians here?...why can’t we for once open the doors to educated and civilized people...

[Gay State Conservative]

Stand by: US...Canada...Australia...Britain.

[GOPJ]

“I thought to myself, maybe one day we will have to run away from the Chinese Communist Party again,” said Leung, now 36. “I just didn’t imagine it would be this soon.”

The Chinese must be so proud of their thug reputation... maybe they can take over a block in Seattle.

[ifinnegan]

We should let them all come here. Vet out ChiCom infiltrators.

Tell the UN China has breached the agreement they made and Hong Kong is no longer under PRC administration.

U.S. will administer Hong Kong for the international community.

Then work to rid HK of Chicom rule and everyone can go back.

[NRx]

Indeed. These are almost all highly educated people with strong family values and a great work ethic. I think we should start granting emergency visas to anyone who requests one. We can do the background checks etc. at our leisure. This is time sensitive and the chicoms will certainly try to obstruct the mass flight of so many people. I don’t want this to be like the 1930s when we slammed the door in the face of Jews trying to get out of Germany.

[CondorFlight]

We should welcome them. They’d be fine, productive citizens.

[Oldexpat]

Nearly all of the office staff I worked with in 70s in HK are now citizens elsewhere.

[Jan_Sobieski]

These are some of the smartest, hardest working, and most anti communist people on the planet. Many left communist China years ago for freedom in Hong Kong. We should let them take over California! MAGA!

[tinamina]

In 1997 they were British Commonwealth citizens with easier immigration rules than ours. They took the big money and went to Vancouver BC where the price of real estate baca earth out of the reach of normal Canadians.

[AAABEST]

Bring them here.

They're smart, have money and Hong Kong is not a shithole. Yet.

[riverdawg]

Canada had (and still has) an immigration system whereby prospective immigrants can buy their way into a permanent residency (like our green card) by pledging to invest a certain amount of money there, $200,000, I think. This is how many HK residents ended up in Vancouver and elsewhere in Canada in the 1990s.

[MissEdie]

Ya’ll come on to SC!

[dfwgator]

We should let them all come here. Vet out ChiCom infiltrators.

Easier said than done.

[USFRIENDINVICTORIA]

AFAIK, there are 300,000 Canadians in Hong Kong. Most got their passports prior to 1997. Vancouver could be in for population boom. Most will be model citizens.

[Syncro]

Nice replacement for all the DACA and other illegal insurgent invading alien criminal colonizers.

One good one in, 100 illegal ones out.

[Liz]

Then-VP Biden toasts Communist China's XI. "Here’s why I’m toasting this Chink. My view for many years is that a rising China is a positive development, and that the Biden family can become billionaires as long as we Democrats force American taxpayers to invest in Beijing’s success. Some anti-globalists see China’s growth as a threat, entertaining visions of a cold-war-style rivalry or great-power confrontation. Other Chinks worry that our aim in the Asia-Pacific is to contain China’s rise,” Biden wrote. “I reject these views. “I remain convinced that a successful China can make our country more prosperous, not less,” he added.

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(h/t Greenfield)

Yet, underneath all the Biden sucking-up rhetoric about the ennobling virtues of globalism was some very parochial and familial profiteering. In 2013, Joe and his son Hunter Biden flew on Air Force Two to China. China’s BHR Partners was founded that year and included Hunter Biden as a board member. The Delaware Board of Trade was incorporated in 2013. Despite its name, the DBOT was not a government agency, but a penny stock startup which received a $3 million loan from New Castle County.

After Joe's wet kiss to XI, the big Chinese partner in the BHR arrangement was Harvest Fund Management which, coincidentally enough, in 2012 was targeting Hollywood with an $800 million investment fund. That same year, you could find Bruno Wu, who had been working with Harvest, and Chris Dodd, along with Harvey Weinstein, playing roles at the Asian Film Summit in Toronto.

And the money didn’t just go one way. The Delaware Board of Trade was incorporated in 2013.

Despite its name, the DBOT was not a government agency, but a penny stock startup which received a $3 million loan from New Castle County. (Delaware is Joe Biden’s home state which he repped as a US Senator.)

New Castle County had approved the issue of $15 million in revenue bonds to fund the DBOT “stock exchange” by touting the “globally recognized leaders in the financial services industry” running it. DBOT’s founders included people with experience in stock exchanges and financial services, and Dennis Toner, who was described as a “top aide to Vice President Joe Biden.”

Toner, Biden’s deputy chief of staff, is in the news for denying that Tara Reade ever told him anything. Reade’s decision to tell Toner and Ted Kaufman was a pretty poor one. Both are longtime Biden men and considered as close to the boss as family. And they’ve reaped the benefits of that closeness.

After Obama won, Ted Kaufman was temporarily appointed to the Senate. If there was anything odd about appointing a Biden advisor to sit in the Senate, it became odder when Senator Kaufman delivered the opening statement in favor of Toner’s appointment as Post Office Governor, by vouching for his “loyalty” working for Joe Biden. Tara Reade might as well have taken her complaint to Biden, as to Toner and Kaufman. The current New Castle County exec has since called DBOT’s founders criminals and threatened to sue after the company was disposed of as a “distressed asset” in exchange for shares of Ideanomics. Ideanomics is a Chinese crypto company trading as a penny stock and the software that served as collateral for the loan has been described as worthless. The chairman of Ideanomics is Wu.

The manager of DBOT-I LLC was listed as John Hynansky. The car dealer is a Biden pal with extensive Ukrainian ties who had lent Biden’s shady brother half a million dollars and had received $20 million in government loans to start a Porsche luxury car dealership in the Ukraine. Biden’s vaunted foreign policy expertise has consisted of sucking up to broker deals between Biden family members, donors, and foreign interests. These deals haven’t been good for America, but they’ve worked out very well for members of Biden's crooked family, as well as assorted donors, camp followers, and the local boys.

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But Biden's biggest deal was helping broker the Chinese takeover of the American entertainment industry. Xi’s visit to Los Angeles hit on all the right cultural notes. He schmoozed Hollywood bigwigs and their errand boys, like Dodd and Biden, he watched a Lakers game, and cheered Obama’s 100,000 Strong China initiative to have a hundred thousand American students study in the Communist dictatorship.

“I can say with confidence my visit has been a full success,” Xi declared.

In China, culture serves the agenda of the Communist government. Unlike the Russians, who struggled vainly to stem the impact of American culture, their Chinese counterparts decided to control it at the source. Biden was a key figure in negotiating the terms on which the PRC would control Hollywood.

In 1962, the Manchurian Candidate depicted an effort by Communists in China, Russia, and elsewhere to kidnap and brainwash American soldiers. The modern remake replaced the Communists with a corporation and the Chinese doctor with a South African geneticist. China could not be offended. While Biden, Katzenberg, and Xi were partying at the Marriot, human rights protesters were calling for freedom, and being arrested by the henchmen of a one-party Democrat city and state for their trouble.

Even while Biden was falsely claiming that the Hollywood sellout would improve human rights in China, the rise of China was already violating human rights in America. Now, as Chinese drones fly over American cities, police stalk empty streets, social media monopolies monitor every single phone, and Democrat officials dismiss the Bill of Rights while locking up millions of people, our rights are gone. And Joe Biden is the Manchurian Candidate who long ago sold out the country he now seeks to rule.

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You just gotta wonder how a (gag) president Biden will find time to run the US when he's perpetually sucking up for new deals for his ne'er-do-well son, his greedy family, his ex-staffers, donors, and his real-estate partners.

[GaryCrow]

In 1997 they were British Commonwealth citizens with easier immigration rules than ours. They took the big money and went to Vancouver BC where the price of real estate baca earth out of the reach of normal Canadians.

The really rich Hong Kong residents have been moving their money out of HK since 1997, they knew what would eventually happen when China got their foot in the door. A lot of them own property in Australia and much of their money has long been moved to Singapore.