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Zhang
arrived in Bosnia in April with two young children in tow.
He and his children were apprehended four times as they tried to cross into Europe .
Zhang is one of a small but growing number of Chinese people who are travelling to the Balkans with the hope of getting into the EU by whatever means necessary.
In 2023 , 148 Chinese people were caught trying to cross the border into Croatia , according to the majority of Bosnia .
In 2021 , three Chinese people were admitted to Bosnia and Herzegovina in this way.
In 2023 , it was 260 . In recent years , the surging numbers of Chinese people trying to cross into the US via the treacherous southern border has become a political talking point in Washington .
Many ordinary Chinese occasionally feel the rough end of the government’s tight control over public speech.
In 2023 , there were 137,143 asylum seekers from China , according to the UN ’s refugee agency.
That is more than five times the number registered a decade earlier .
In March alone, the number of Chinese nationals encountered by US border police increased by 8,500% .
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