In fact, your orthogonal point brings to mind an interesting factoid - Jews who made it to China survived WWII - in the midst of great wartime-induced privation on both sides, both Imperial Japan and Nationalist China not only admitted them into their respective regions of China, they did so against the express wishes of the Nazis who, in a weird twist of history, were allied with both Imperial Japan and the Chinese Nationalists, the latter of which the Nazis were arming against the Chinese Communists. And when the Chinese went through the famine of the Great Leap Forward during the late 1950's, was there any call from Israel to admit refugees from China, out of sheer gratitude? Not that anyone knows of...
I read that Israel has been accepting Chinese Jews in recent years. Their settlements in China date from Persian caravans on the Silk Road. . .
But in the run-up to the Holocaust, South Africa and Franco's Spain saved a lot of Jews.
and that was because China was NOT communist at that time.....so at least get the fact that I refer to the horrors that are Communist China