The collapse of Hong Kong universities, not for financial but political reasons

A philosopher in Hong Kong, who for obvious reasons does not want to be identified, writes:

A historian, Rowena HE Xiaoqing (Associate Prof) was fired from the Chinese University of Hong Kong after having her visa extension denied by the HK Immigration dept for what I assume are political reasons. (Her scholarship focuses on the Tiananmen Square crackdown.) At the moment, her profile is still on the CUHK website (archived here). A chilling case of for those of us here in HK (by design, I imagine) and one I think humanities scholars should be aware of if they are considering taking up a post here. Let it be perfectly clear that the Hong Kong government will scrutinize your research for national security (sic) concerns:

Reported at both HK Free Press and SCMP:

https://hongkongfp.com/2023/10/30/chinese-university-fires-tiananmen-crackdown-scholar-after-hong-kong-govt-rejects-visa-extension/

https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/society/article/3239567/tiananmen-square-crackdown-historian-specialising-1989-incident-sacked-university-hong-kong-over

At this point, I know many Hong Kong scholars, in philosophy and law, are looking to leave.   There is a huge opportunity for Australasian and Singaporean universities here.