Regarding to move or not to immigrate, I believe it is the worry of many Hong Kong people nowadays. There are several perspectives to consider this issue.
First, is it a must to go? What are the risks of not leaving?
The most important point is that one should never underestimate the evil of the Chinese Communist Party and should not guess what bottom line they have. The Chinese Communist Party will do anything to consolidate its rule. Some people may think, “I am not anti-communist either, I can just be a submissive, the CCP will not treat good people as enemies.
Under the rule of the Communist Party, it is not a question of whether you engage in politics or not, it is a question of whether you do not look for politics, but politics will come to you. You do obedient people, but if you are unlucky, such as being demolished, targeted by party officials, falsely accused, you can not find a place to reason, your trouble will continue to magnify, until you gnaw not fall.
In the recent demolition storm in Beijing, there was a female public security officer who confronted the demolition team and did not back down. If a female public security officer is like this, what will happen to the general public?
Before the Kuomintang left the mainland, it once reserved a seat for the great scholars Chen Yinkeng and Qian Zhongshu, and sent people to mobilize them to leave, to go to Hong Kong or Taiwan or the United States can, but unfortunately the two great scholars have politely refused. In the decades that followed, they were humiliated and academically wasted, and they would have been eligible for tenure at a prestigious school like Harvard.
They did not engage in politics, and they even had personal friendships with senior party officials, but when bad luck came, no one could stop it.
Second, don’t take any chances, don’t think it’s too late to leave later. At the beginning of the “liberation” of the Chinese Communist Party, Hong Kong people were still free to enter and leave, but overnight, the Customs and Excise Department was blocked, and since then, there has been a permanent separation between inside and outside for decades. Will Hong Kong be closed? Will we have to apply for entry and exit? Will the private property of Hong Kong people be restricted from leaving the country? No one knows about all this, everything is at the whim of party officials.
Once again, immigrants have to be uprooted to a foreign country with many problems, people in chaotic times are better than dogs in peace, and more is better than less. Immigrants do have to face a lot of difficulties, but not immigrants to face the disaster. Difficulties every day, disaster does not know when to approach, difficulties can be overcome, disaster may not be able to afford. It is a matter of what choices you have to make in front of different situations, what price you are prepared to pay, and how determined you are.
Even if you only consider the possibility of your children being brainwashed later, you should carefully weigh the importance of this. During the Cultural Revolution, the Communist Party encouraged “children of exploiting families” to draw a “class line” with their parents, and many young people declared their separation from their parents, with some students bringing Red Guards to raid their homes. If you are not sure that you can compete with the Chinese Communist Party for your children, and you cannot use family education to fight against school education, then you should be prepared that one day your children may become your enemy.
Again, do you have what it takes to immigrate? How many problems do you have to face before you apply for immigration? Do you have elderly parents to take care of, and do you have the financial means to settle down at the beginning of your immigration? Are you qualified to apply? What other countries can you consider besides the usual popular countries for immigrants?
It all starts with the idea of deciding whether you want to go down this path or not, and then considering the difficulties you need to face, which are easy to overcome, which are more troublesome, and which are insurmountable. There is no difficulty that is insurmountable, no pain that is unbearable, compared to the pain that generations of people have to face under the Chinese Communist Party. When Lai Chi-ying swam from the mainland to Hong Kong and risked death in the storm, he was not afraid of death, but still afraid of the difficulties of immigration?
Now the United States, Britain, Canada and Australia have introduced preferential policies, the United Kingdom has BNO, Canada accepts university graduates within five years without discrimination, the conditions are much more relaxed than in 1997. Some people choose Japan, Thailand and Malaysia application conditions are said to be not harsh, the most important thing is not a rich life, the most important thing is the air of freedom.
Hong Kong people are very adaptable, the general economic conditions are not bad, a floor out of several million or even ten or twenty million. Hong Kong is almost the highest index of living in the world, to any country, the needs of daily life, are easy to deal with, not to mention that there are friends and relatives can take care of each other.
It is good to consider more favorable conditions when you think about it, and you should consider more unfavorable conditions when you actually deal with the problem. If you are determined to go, do not drag your feet, to sit down and act, what should be done immediately hands and feet to do, encounter obstacles and then find ways to deal with.
When the opportunity to make a decision, the horse died on the ground line, one does not make two do not rest, cut off all the involvement, do not double-minded. Really don’t want to go, it’s dead set on staying, what doom and gloom approaching, then carry up.
This is a major juncture in life, encountering this dilemma, people have to be a little bit of heart, go forward, life will have a fight. Immigrants have to give up a lot of things, but what you get from immigration is your lifelong freedom. Nothing in this world is more important than freedom. Without freedom, my hometown is not my hometown, and with freedom, the sky is the limit of my peace of mind.
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