The Wall Street Journal has an article tracing the journey of refugees from China. A couple of notable quotes:
The United Nations refugee agency counted 116,868 Chinese seeking asylum around the world at a point measured in mid-2022, up from 15,362 at the end of 2012, the year Mr. Xi took power.
Since the start of the government’s budget year in October through February, U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents have apprehended 4,271 Chinese nationals along the southwest border, 12 times the number in the same period a year earlier. Total arrests at the border during the period were 891,774.
Norma Pimentel, who oversees the Catholic Charities of the Rio Grande Valley in McAllen, said the shelter staff used to see a Chinese person once every couple of months. “Now, all of a sudden, we see a surge of people from China,” she said, adding that on a day recently, 50 people, or about 25% of the day’s refugees, were Chinese.
The reporters were Wenxin Fan at wenxin.fan@wsj.com and Shen Lu at shen.lu@wsj.com