For many investors and intellectuals leaving China, it's Japan — not the US — that's the bigger draw
https://apnews.com/article/chinese-immigration-japan-opportunity-digital-chinatowns-99898105a2204d22669f6c693c58cbd5
TOKYO (AP) — One by one, the students, lawyers and others filed into a classroom in a central Tokyo university for a lecture by a Chinese journalist on Taiwan and democracy — taboo topics that can't be discussed publicly back home in China.
“Taiwan’s modern-day democracy took struggle and bloodshed, there’s no question about that,” said Jia Jia, a columnist and guest lecturer at the University of Tokyo who was briefly detained in China eight years ago on suspicion of penning a call for China's top leader to resign.