When Circumstances Take You To Beijing

In today’s New York Times was an article titled “U.S. Visitors to China Are Wary Amid Accounts of Intimidation”, in which the observation was made that executives and professional visitors to China are now being detained and held for questioning as a result of the consequences of bad U.S.-China relations.

Well, contrary to this specific belief, these types of behaviors are not new, and even worse, they’re not just limited to people of status and means.

Shortly less than ten years ago, I was returning to the United States from South Korea…