by Steven Schaerer, author of Surviving Chinese Communist Detention
Don’t just take my word; read the words of the Chinese Communists for yourself. Evil does exist in the modern era on a global stage:
Ranking Chinese Communist Party members routinely validate the grave risk they pose to the world.
I have direct knowledge of their murderous intent. I lived and worked in Beijing, China for five years. I learned to speak Mandarin, traveled extensively throughout the Mainland, and co-founded a profitable consulting business.
In my fifth year in China, CCP authorities appeared at my Beijing office one day and rounded up my colleagues and me. After hours of interrogation, we were forced to sign and fingerprint documents in Chinese that we were not given time to read. Without access to any due process, we were arbitrarily charged with “illegal employment”, and thrown into a holding cell.
Despite providing my legal alien employment license, a Beijing employment visa, registration documents with local authorities, Beijing incorporation papers, proof of taxed income, and every other imaginable document certifying my legal status in China; no one seemed to care.
With two colleagues from Germany and Spain, I was hauled to a processing center where we were falsely accused of breaking the law and given a fourteen-day sentence in Chinese detention.
I was locked in a Chinese prison transport vehicle surrounded by a swarm of armed CCP police officers. En-route to wherever we were heading, I managed to call the U.S. embassy in Beijing. “Help”, was the only word that I could think to say to the U.S. Consular Officer who picked up my frantic midnight phone call. I was being abducted by China’s communist regime and taken somewhere to the outskirts of Beijing in the dead of night.
My final destination was a black-site prison compound that does not exist on domestic or international map services.
I had already spent a full day in a holding cell without access to any information. I was hungry and thirsty. They drew blood samples from me and forced my face into an iris scanner. They stripped me naked and marched me through a metal detector. All my belongings were taken and I was ultimately provided blood-stained blankets to accompany my stay in CCP detention.
“Contacting your embassy is illegal”, CCP guards often said.
My colleagues and I were separated and I was thrown into a prison cell with sixteen unknown inmates. We were locked up in a cramped prison cell, 24-hours a day, sharing a single squatter toilet, and eating re-boiled yellow slop out of a communal bucket. We slept on wooden planks that were designed to hold maybe eight or ten inmates.
The walls of our cell were plastered with “suicide” warning signs.
The conditions were so bad that some inmates refused to eat and became malnourished. Others were so far gone from anything approaching sanity that they sat alone in a corner, rocking back and forth. Some inmates were emotionally and violently unstable.
I’m still not entirely sure how I survived a number of very close calls in CCP detention, which is designed to kill through violence, sleep deprivation, disease, and malnutrition.
Somehow, I got lucky. Maybe it’s because I speak Mandarin and could communicate with my Chinese cellmates and guards. Maybe it’s because the U.S. government got involved and petitioned for my release. Maybe God had other plans for me than having me die alone in a Communist nightmare.
After nearly a month of indefinite detention and several near-death encounters, Chinese immigration authorities decided to deport my colleagues and me to our respective countries and banned us from re-entry into China.
My entire experience is published in a 330-page book, Surviving Chinese Communist Detention, due to be released in the summer of 2021.
What has concerned me far more than the horrific nature of communist detention and torture is the encroaching influence of the CCP in the United States.
The top threat to communism is Christianity. CCP makes the threat of Christianity abundantly clear by tearing down Christian churches, banning access to the Bible, and detaining and executing Christians in China. The CCP fears God, above all else, and particularly the notion that any entity could ever supersede the supreme authority of China’s Communist Party.
The uncomfortable truth is that this relentless war on Christianity and literal fear of God does not stop at China’s borders. CCP has infiltrated American universities, social media platforms, media outlets, and of course, Hollywood. China’s unmitigated encroachment into American society coincides with rampant societal instability, the erosion of Christian principles, and the widespread censorship of conservative voices.
CCP is not just engaging a simple propaganda campaign, but military and psychological warfare. The communist regime’s “Three Warfares” concept uses psychological warfare, media warfare, and legal warfare, according to a 2015 report from the U.S. Special Operations Command. Under the CCP, “media warfare seeks to influence domestic and international public opinion to build support for military actions and dissuade adversaries from actions contrary to China’s interests,” while legal warfare “uses international and domestic law to claim the legal high ground or assert Chinese interests.”
The CCP has emphatically stated that it has no problem killing hundreds of millions of American citizens to secure a Chinese-led century.
The CCP has categorically stated that you, Christian America, are its top military, educational, and religious threat.
Finally, the CCP has readily acknowledged that it intends to use its “Three Warfares” doctrine of psychological, media, and legal warfare to assert its global interests.
I can shout about the imminent dangers of communism. I can huff and puff and wave red flags. I can write a book designed for Western audiences to understand that communist China is at war with America.
But don’t take my word for it. China’s Communist Party is more than happy to tell you themselves.