A 27 -year old woman has arrived in Canada and she has decided to stay: FOREVER. How long is forever? The philosophical question and its answer is always a subject of debate(among those who care!). She is from Hong Kong, the former British colony(colonizer extraordinaire!) and now, after Beijing kicked the formal agreement to follow the British rules into the ocean, a city that is completely Chinese run by Chinese for Beijing's Communist Party. Yes, that Communist Party run by Xi J P.
Ms. Chow, formerly of Hong Kong, is a dissident citizen of the city of HK. Since her high school days back in the early days of 21st Century, she along with other like-minded young people protested the heavy hand of Beijing when the Communist Party began imposing new laws against protests and speaking out against government policies and actions against these protests. With Mr. Wong, a fellow student, she was arrested, her travel restricted and she spent 7 months in prison before being released. (Can you imagine a Chinese prison? Our own Minister of East Asian Affairs visited many incarcerated prisoners in various locations and offered first hand descriptions of deplorable conditions, such as restricted spaces, lack of sleeping beds, lack of protection from adverse weather, and serious over crowding. Lovely, those PLA prisons.
So, Ms. Chow, playing along with Beijing, decided to roll with the plans to repatriate her sympathies and allow her to go abroad to study. Since visas to the US are almost impossible now, she selected next best: CANADA. The police escorted her to a documents station where she was photographed, again, and had passport reinstated. She got on a plane and left Hong Kong. It took her about 10 seconds to decide to stay and give up on Hong Kong and China and everything she has ever known. This came as a result of her dealings with Beijing. Given her youth, Beijing and Xi assumed she would return and could be trumpeted as a "re-educated" youth who had amended her ways. Wrong. She is bright enough to know the difference between freedom and prison. She chose freedom over the Communist Party and the PLA.
Welcome to a new life, Agnes, may you prosper FOREVER.
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