Hong Kong Migrants Seek Fresh Start in U.K. After Crackdown
Many who have left the city say they feel less like refugees than trailblazers, eager to build a new home after watching their old one slowly transform under Beijing.
The departures gate at Hong Kong International Airport last month. Since China introduced its sweeping national security law, tens of thousands of people have made plans to leave the city and start new lives elsewhere.Credit.Anthony Kwan for The New York Times
LONDON Lin Kwong had a good life in Hong Kong. She taught sports management part time at a college and chaired an amateur drama club. Her young son, Chee Yin, was doted on by his grandparents. She had friends and favorite restaurants. But in February, she made the difficult decision to leave it all behind.
Isabella Kwai and Alexandra Stevenson, The New York Times
Published: 12 Jul 2021 11:03 AM BdST
Updated: 12 Jul 2021 11:03 AM BdST Travelers wave goodbye to friends and family at the Hong Kong International Airport, June 24, 2021. In the year since China imposed a sweeping national security law on its territory of Hong Kong, a former British colony, tens of thousands of people have made plans to leave the city. (Anthony Kwan/The New York Times)
Lin Kwong had a good life in Hong Kong. She taught sports management part time at a college and chaired an amateur drama club. Her young son, Chee Yin, was doted on by his grandparents. She had friends and favourite restaurants. But in February, she made the difficult decision to leave it all behind.
Four people who swapped Hong Kong for Britain share their experiences
30 April 2021 • 9:22am
Hong Kong pro-democracy activist Simon Cheng fled to the UK last June but has told The Telegraph that he is still worried about being followed in London by people he suspects are linked to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).
“I have experienced [being] followed and tailed by suspected Chinese agents… in central London a few times,” said Mr Cheng, who was granted asylum in the UK, in the video above.
“I’m quite vocal and active in the pro-democracy activisms in the UK, so I’ve been singled out by the CCP regime as a traitor or trouble-maker or anti-China figure.
By Patrick Goodenough | March 3, 2021 | 4:32am EST
A protester holds a small placard at an event organised by Justitia Hong Kong to mourn the loss of Hong Kong s political freedoms, in Leicester Square, central London, on December 12, 2020. (Photo by JUSTIN TALLIS/AFP via Getty Images)
(CNSNews.com) – Expect to hear the word “patriot” in connection with Hong Kong a lot in the coming weeks and months.
As China’s biggest annual political event known as the “two sessions” starts this week, on the agenda are proposals to change the way the people of Hong Kong are represented, built on the premise that only “patriots” must be allowed to govern the territory.