Taiwan, a safe haven for oppressed Hong Kong citizens.
"Throughout 2021, China’s unrelenting crackdown on liberty in Hong Kong continued to widen, with the mass arrests of democracy activists and the shuttering of the last few remaining independent media outlets in the Special Administrative Region (SAR). Under the draconian National Security Law passed by China’s National People’s Congress in June 2020, the naked suppression of people’s civil rights was masked by authorities holding so-called “patriots-only” elections in December 2021 despite all pro-democracy candidates having effectively been barred from running. While the December election had the lowest turnout of voters in the SAR’s history, a record number of Hong Kong persons have been voting with their feet instead and emigrating to other countries, including Taiwan. ...
Statistics from the Immigration Department of Taiwan’s Ministry of the Interior show that from January to November 2021, there were 9,772 Hong Kong persons granted residence permits, an increase of 271 from 9,501 over the same period last year. Similarly, 1,572 Hong Kong persons were granted permanent resident permits, an increase of 175 persons from 1,397 last year. ...
The emigration figures show a continuation of the significant increase of migrants from Hong Kong to Taiwan starting a year earlier. In 2020, Taiwan issued 10,813 resident permits to Hong Kong residents (for work, study, etc.) and 1,576 permanent residency permits. The 2020 count significantly exceeded the 5,858 residency permits that Taiwan issued in 2019—when the extradition law was first introduced—as well as the 4,148 issued in 2018 and 4,057 issued in 2016. ...
In addition to the significant number of visitors from Hong Kong to Taiwan, which averaged well above 1 million on a yearly basis from 2013-2015 ...
[t]here were 10,960 Hong Kong and Macao students enrolled in Taiwan universities in 2020; Hong Kong students accounted for 7,807 of the total, representing the largest share of overseas Chinese, Hong Kong, and Macao students studying in Taiwan ..."
Statistics from the Immigration Department of Taiwan’s Ministry of the Interior show that from January to November 2021, there were 9,772 Hong Kong persons granted residence permits, an increase of 271 from 9,501 over the same period last year. Similarly, 1,572 Hong Kong persons were granted permanent resident permits, an increase of 175 persons from 1,397 last year. ...
The emigration figures show a continuation of the significant increase of migrants from Hong Kong to Taiwan starting a year earlier. In 2020, Taiwan issued 10,813 resident permits to Hong Kong residents (for work, study, etc.) and 1,576 permanent residency permits. The 2020 count significantly exceeded the 5,858 residency permits that Taiwan issued in 2019—when the extradition law was first introduced—as well as the 4,148 issued in 2018 and 4,057 issued in 2016. ...
In addition to the significant number of visitors from Hong Kong to Taiwan, which averaged well above 1 million on a yearly basis from 2013-2015 ...
[t]here were 10,960 Hong Kong and Macao students enrolled in Taiwan universities in 2020; Hong Kong students accounted for 7,807 of the total, representing the largest share of overseas Chinese, Hong Kong, and Macao students studying in Taiwan ..."
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