from everything they know. we can t go back to hong kong right now, but i think ten years or 20 years we can. if she is still in hong kong, then i think she sjust going to be brainwashed. i think they deep down know that | i won t come back to hong kong. many are cash rich and are buying homes outright in towns across britain. they re bringing over on average, six, 700, maybe 800,000 into the uk economy. but are the tensions they were hoping to escape now in the uk? this is my bloody face after being attacked by those chinese people. i m elaine chong. over the past few months, i ve been following hong kongers who ve moved to the uk and i ve been finding out if their new life here is what they were hoping for. in 2019, violent clashes spread through hong kong. millions of hong kongers took to the streets to protest against china s growing control in the region. they felt their freedom of speech was being threatened with new risks of deportation to china and possible torture. t