THAILAND

Chinese exiles living in fear in Thailand

Spectrum, Dane Halpin, Published on 14/02/2016

» Alone, without a passport and desperate to evade authorities, Xi* slipped across the border to Vietnam on foot. With all his belongings crammed into a small backpack, he traversed hundreds of kilometres of dense, mountainous jungle to reach Hanoi. But even then the democracy activist knew he wasn’t safe from the reach of the Chinese government.