A swelling current of Chinese people have grown so disillusioned with the direction of their country that they are abandoning it, preferring to take their chances with a dangerous migration route instead
. He flew first to Iran, then Turkey and Morocco before landing in Ecuador. From there, he began a journey of at least 5,000 kilometres by land, entering Colombia, then crossing into Panama by foot through the Darien Gap, a jungle traversed by no road, andHis destination, like that of hundreds of thousands of others, is the southern border of the United States, where he hopes to claim asylum and find a new way in life.
China’s Communist Party ensures its people have little formal way to register displeasure with their own government. Those walking into Panama are voting with their feet in what amounts to a stunning rebuke of China under, the authoritarian leader who recently began an unprecedented third term. Some say they believe China’s age of optimism, its decades-long stretch of rising opportunity, wealth and well-being, has reached its end.
Chinese migrants who spoke with the Globe and Mail in Panama described losing faith with their country after its leadership imposed punishing pandemic lockdowns that largely succeeded in constraining the spread ofTheir exodus is small but freighted with meaning. It suggests the strangulating deployment of government power during the pandemic has prompted some to reconsider their willingness to make the sacrifices demanded of those living under Communist Party rule.
Chen Lifeng, 23, managed a warehouse for a cosmetics company before his departure. He heard about the Panama route through a video recommended to him by Douyin, the original Chinese incarnation of Tik Tok, as he browsed his phone during a lockdown. Mr. Chen’s dissatisfaction extends beyond the economy. Yes, finding work has grown more difficult, with the unemployment rate for urban Chinese aged 16 to 24 rising to 19.6 per cent in March. But finding a wife and family may be even harder.
Worried his arrest was imminent, Mr. Gao left, using a Jehovah’s Witness app on his phone as a guide. It contains an address for the church’s headquarters in New York that has become his destination, far from a country that, he said, has changed.
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