Jack of Harts

The New Hong Kong Contingency relied on several factors. They needed large enough islands to act as a base for their long-term plans that were also near enough to Hong Kong to make trips easily planned. They needed to be outside traditional Chinese waters, and outside the waters the Communist Party looked upon with envious eyes. And they needed something with minimal local laws and infrastructure in place. A deserted ocean island. Which were depressingly rare. And large ones were even rarer. So they compromised by buying plots on numerous sparsely populated large islands. They built boltholes on all of them, and arranged numerous methods of transport to get them there at need. They triggered some of those plans in 2019 when the Freedom Protests took over the streets of Hong Kong, but otherwise continued business as normal as best they could in the years that followed. They kept their heads down, kept their families safe, and continued to funnel resources into their boltholes.