RE: Situation Update: Still Trapped in China
Thank you again, @patriamreminisci, for your detailed account of the nightmare you are currently living under in China. I suppose it could actually get worse, although that is hard to imagine, before it gets better and while you wait to be freed.
Asking what is likely a stupid question (but I don't recall seeing you touch on it before now ...) - is there not any access to foreign help somehow? Most notably, the American Embassy? Or something similar?
If the details of your situation came to light to the right parties, I am hoping something could be done about it. For example, getting your "hospital" bill paid, so you might be free to leave the country.
Wish I could do more than upvote and resteem, but at least it represents my small part to get the word out. I hope you will continue to keep us updated on your situation.
P.S. While I rarely do this, calling on @crypto.piotr (and whoever else will do it ...) to resteem and call attention to this post and this man's plight.
I'm glad you asked that one, honestly. The problem with the US embassy (or ANY embassy, really) is that the moment embassy officials leave the embassy compound, their authority gets left at the door with them. This is technically true in any country, but China, with its constant insecurities about "sovereignty," takes it personally if an embassy so much as issues a speech about anything China has done, and a speech or memo by an embassy official urging China to do one thing has an almost universal history of making China feel as if they have to do the opposite to avoid the impression that they are "bowing to foreigners."
As a result, embassies here in China have a very deliberate "hands off" policy unless there are lives at stake or a citizen has been arrested.
Media attention would be useful, but that would require disclosing my identity, which is not safe for someone writing an anti-China blog from inside of China to do until they have left permanently.
Catching up a bit this evening @patriamreminisci, yes ...
... I definitely understand. For your sake, though, I was hoping they might at least help you with confidentially getting word out and back to America to assist you with securing the funds needed to pay your hospital bill. You would then presumably no longer be a prisoner, but free to go. Assuming you would ...
Have you written anything about the "evolution" (or whatever word(s) you would choose ...) you have been through, from the time you answered "the call" for an English teacher in China (you say here in 2012?) to where you are today? If so, I'd welcome a link. I would definitely read it.
Great to see you have been added to the list of c-square / c-cubed. That should provide some more exposure and support.
I have written about these past five years on various different sites, but so far not here on Steemit. Perhaps I should consider that. Journals and biographies seem to be better received on this site than bland analytical articles.
I like your posts just as they are @patriamreminisci, as they are both well written and documented.
That said, given the great diversity "in here," from all over the world, it is not easy to say what might reach a broader audience.
I have always just written "from the heart" and let the chips fall where they will from there.
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