I would have thought they would be unusually badly placed, because the regime will view them as traitors, for the same reason I would not recommend using apostates for outreach to muslims.
That was precisely my point actually—just like Hirsi Ali might be well-placed to advocate for women’s rights within Islam, people from Hong Kong might be well placed to highlight e.g. human rights issues in China.
Ahh, in that case I agree that HKers, or even better Uighurs, would be well placed. But my impression was that 80k etc.’s concerns about China mainly revolved around things like improving Western-Chinese coordination to reduce the risk of war, AI race or climate change, rather than human rights. I would think that putting pressure on them for human rights abuses would be likely to make this worse, as the CCP views such activism as an attack on their system. It is hard to cooperate with someone if they are denouncing you as evil and funding your dissidents.
I would have thought they would be unusually badly placed, because the regime will view them as traitors, for the same reason I would not recommend using apostates for outreach to muslims.
That was precisely my point actually—just like Hirsi Ali might be well-placed to advocate for women’s rights within Islam, people from Hong Kong might be well placed to highlight e.g. human rights issues in China.
Ahh, in that case I agree that HKers, or even better Uighurs, would be well placed. But my impression was that 80k etc.’s concerns about China mainly revolved around things like improving Western-Chinese coordination to reduce the risk of war, AI race or climate change, rather than human rights. I would think that putting pressure on them for human rights abuses would be likely to make this worse, as the CCP views such activism as an attack on their system. It is hard to cooperate with someone if they are denouncing you as evil and funding your dissidents.
Working on human rights were just an example, because of the comparison you raised, it could also be CSET type work.