Field notes for people who live, work, or hold stakes across the US–China divide — identity,
scrutiny, rights, and paperwork. No listicles, no visa-blog folklore: every entry names its
dates, its sources, and what remains unverified. What one side's politics does to people the
other side stopped counting as its own.
AI support walls, algorithmic black boxes, staged 'news', subscription traps, and the people left outside — plus the four counter-moves that still work.
A biography as portfolio: Qinghai-born, Beijing-schooled, Geneva-posted, Seychelles-domiciled. What jurisdiction shopping buys, and why it costs nine figures.
VERIFIED · Editorial desk — no lab hardware; 2026 litigation checked against Reuters/CBS/Mother Jones; pre-2026 biography as widely reported [unverified relays] #jurisdiction shopping#citizenship#crypto#US-China#field guide
One word separates an act of war from a law-enforcement action. A vocabulary decoder for cross-border readers, from 1962's quarantine to today's coverage.
VERIFIED · Editorial desk — no lab hardware; concept anchored to CSIS analysis and 1962 archival record; 2026 episode details [unverified relays] #geopolitical literacy#Taiwan Strait#quarantine#law of war#media literacy