Bu Dongwei holds the core American value of freedom deep in his heart. He fled from persecution in China back in 2008 and knows firsthand how far a totalitarian regime will go when it perceives an ideological threat to its grip on power.
During the May 1989 declaration of martial law, when pro-democracy protests were at their peak in Beijing, he went to the city to see what was happening at Tiananmen Square but left just five days before the bloody June 4 massacre. Fast-forward 10 years, and he himself ended up being the target of the Chinese regime’s violence: like countless others, he too was demonized as an enemy of the state and a threat to social order….