Tramways pass through a street in Hong Kong on February 11, 2025. Peter Parks / AFP They are rich, have a good level of education and are perceived as politically reliable. An important criterion since the resumption of Hongkong by Beijing, which crushed the democratic movement. Xiao Juan, 39, her husband and their three children therefore had the ideal profile, to participate in the “Top Talents”, a program that offers permanent resident visas for people who earn more than $ 2.5 million in Hongkong ( 306,000 euros) per year or are graduated from one of the 199 prestigious universities listed by the authorities, 20 of whom are Chinese. Launched in December 2022, this immigration program should make it possible to increase the population of Hong Kong, abused by accelerated aging, years of COVID-19 which have seen expatriates folding baggage and a political repression which pushed those who did not Were not sent to prison to flee to London, Taiwan or elsewhere far from Chinese power. Like Xiao Juan, 95 % of selected for visa come from continental China. Under the thumb of the PCC, the unsaid of the program is that this new population is already used to living under the thumb of the Communist Party. Even if they also move away from it a little, they do not flee the regime as did waves of Chinese migrants in the years following the Foundation of the People’s Republic. They do not have this tradition of freedom of expression, independent press, opposition parties and demonstrations which characterized Hong Kong before the imposition of the Draconian law on national security, in the summer of 2020. 78.87% of this article to read. The rest is reserved for subscribers.
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Publish date : 2025-02-18 14:28:24
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