Jack of Harts

The thing you must understand about the New Hong Kong Contingency is that was not merely a bolthole for rich Hong Kong businessmen. It was not a place for them to retire and waste away their years in quiet contemplation. It was not designed to protect their families until their money ran out. No. They did not siphon their fortunes away so they could fade into history and disappear from memory. They were Hong Kong businessman. They sat astride the economic tides of the world, and no trumped up Communist Party was going to take their power from them, even if it was going to inevitably take their home. But they could build a new home, a New Hong Kong, anywhere they wanted to. Because the secret of Hong Kong was not its location. The Communist Party would strangle and kill Hong Kong, but a New Hong Kong could arise anywhere the right men and the right money put their mind to it. And the New Hong Kong Contingency was just that right combination.

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.

One thing to consider is that we often talk about China as if it is one nation, one culture, and one people. We speak of the Chinese Menace as an enemy of freedom, but that is not truly accurate. The people or even the nations are not synonymous with the governments that lead or represent them. I have many contacts within China, Free China, and Free Hong Kong, and they are more alike to each other than different. It is The Party that runs the government of Mainland China that is the enemy of the Western Alliance. It is The Party that conquered most of Southeastern Asia back when they still called themselves Communists. It is The Party that ranks the peoples’ social credit to determine if they are allowed to travel, communicate, or even live. It is The Party that forced Free China, Free Japan, Free Tibet, and all the other Free Peoples of various conquered nations to flee their homes and seek freedom in Pacifica or California. We have never been at war with the Chinese people. And that is something we have often allowed ourselves to forget.