Such is the dilemma of living or leaving a dictatorship. Also, it's one thing to stand on the barricades and risk prison when you're young and single, but it's a whole different level when you have family and you know the CCP will not hesitate to use them as pawns. (In Xinjiang, it's all too common for parents to get sent to reeducation camps, and the children end up in orphanages.)

This will probably be an unpopular position, but I think some things are a matter of settled strategic win. The CCP has won. You shouldn't fight a battle which results in your meaningless destruction. The CCP can only have a semblance of vulnerability if it terribly mismanages China, and so far it seems to be rather competent.