Bend, Not Break: A Life in Two Worlds
Described in BnB and her earlier memoir in Chinese, the extraordinary experiences in her early life in China might be true, which could be best described as thorough, KGB-styled trainings.
These activities are from these two memoirs, followed by speculations:
1. Kept away from parents: So that she could concentrate on high intensity training as a professional to work in a foreign country. This was typical for training of personnel of national interest. High level athletes in China are still trained this way nowadays.
2. Making her own meals: food preparation with unconventional, improvised materials, which was bad in taste but good for survival under extreme conditions. This was excellent practice for special agents.
3. Radio construction: It helped to insure reception of instructions through disguised messages embedded in radio broadcast. It was old fashioned technique but still important in the 1970's.
4. Military training: Weapon use for dangerous missions, which of course was mandatory for spies from any country.
5. Hood-over-head arrest: Part of western style interrogation, which was routine training against highly possible treatment by target country's counterintelligence agency.
6. Gang rape: Part of endurance as well as talent training, to get rid of shame found among ordinary, conservative Chinese people. This was standard KGB training, frequently depicted in spy novels based on real stories.
7. Foreign language skill: She was relatively well-trained in English, even though she pretends now to have known little by the time of arrival, just to cover up in a clumsy way.
8. Steak dinner: This was training to get used to western foods and table manner. What other Chinese could afford steak in 1976 or earlier? A single steak contained all the meat in a city resident's ration for one whole month at that time.
9. Expelled to the US: As an ordinary Chinese, no one would be sent to the US in 1984. But as a special agent, the government would produce a reason as a cover to send her out.
Quality of training:
Watching her public interview videos, one would notice that she never show any sign of unease even when she was telling something unusual or details different from earlier versions. She must have done very well in her training. She will pass any lie-detector test.
Accomplishment:
[a] In Albuquerque, NM, she befriended Richard, an American engineer working at a guided missile base nearby. She might have married him during her first marriage of 1986-1989.
- Now Chinese guided missiles are threatening our aircraft carriers.
[b] She served seven years in National Center for Supercomputing Applications.
- Now Chinese supercomputers are as powerful as, if not more powerful than our own's. This is another important issue of our national security.
[c] She had great insight of 3D-printing
-- Many low-cost models of 3D-printers have been commercialized in China. Advanced, industrial 3D-printers are employed in production of Chinese newest fighter jets, especially the titanium alloy frameworks.
[d] She found her way inside the White House
- She is affecting the making of our national policies. Shouldn't our fellow Americans be alarmed?