Apart from the politicised miners like Jihan Wu, the rest of the Chinese miners are a bunch of thick whores who'll mine anything if it makes more money. I doubt most of them could identify a Core developer if one of them sat on their face.
The only thing miners respect is money. The money is now outside of China. If the money is sensible it's not going to put up with a chain split.
I think "thick whores" will do as a suitable synonym for "independent strong minded business men"

And as such they won't care about losing the core developers. They will care about losing the exchanges but the exchanges are publicly pronouncing they will follow the hash majority - some even in SEC filings.
So I haven't figured out who the well-moneyed white knight exchange that matters is, that is going to tell them they are not necessarily following the hash majority.
Or is their another form of "money" other than exchanges that the miners will be influenced by?