Fox, I've been to Hong Kong numerous times before they came out from under British protection..I lived in Kuala Lumpur, supervising the engineering work of assembly and electrical testing of integrated circuits for a couple years, twice in my career. We had business contacts in HK and Singapore.
Hong Kong would be a little safer, as far as potential confiscation of your assets if relations with the West went sour......but I was thinking of the opportunities in the mainland.
Heck yeah...there is a rising middle class, and if they like to gamble, they would like the stock market. We could set up an investment office there..sophisticated trading software..dazzle them..take their money (of course make money for them too)........it could be a cool life for a younger man. Mama would have maid service..we could have a cook..no messing with the maids though.