To Strengthen Democracy, Welcome New Chinese Immigrants

Commentary
Last month, Xi Jinping got his third-and-forever term as general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). He used the opportunity to subdue talk of China’s sputtering economy and accelerate preparations for war. Many of China’s technological and entrepreneurial elites are responding by fleeing the country. They want new passports and lives abroad.
With Hong Kong no longer safe, they head to places like the United States, Europe, Singapore, and Caribbean countries whose printers churn passports like so many hundred-dollar bills: Antigua and Barbuda, Dominica, Saint Kitts, and Nevis.
Wealthy Chinese immigrants can bring their technological and scientific expertise to new countries, and sometimes invest millions of dollars for the privilege….