When Kivi’s plans to get a US masters degree did not work out last year, the student from China’s eastern city of Nanjing switched to an institution closer to home: the Chinese University of Hong Kong.
Kivi is part of what university officials and immigration specialists say is a growing trend of mainland Chinese students and young workers moving to the former British colony.
Academics and students said the trend was driven by pessimism about the prospects offered by a mainland in the grip of tough zero-Covid policies and by doubts about the welcome Chinese can expect in the US amid increasing diplomatic tensions between Beijing and Washington.
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