Wall Street Journal: Grace Jin Drexel, an American citizen, testified that her mother who lives in the U.S. has received threatening phone calls in response to Ms. Drexel’s public advocacy for her pastor father’s release. This testimony is the kind we hear over and over again.
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Ms. Kwok’s experience also points to an undertold part of PRC coercion: hostage-taking through detentions and exit bans. By our estimates, at least 100 family members of Americans are currently detained or prevented from leaving China—used as leverage to censor, intimidate, gain economic advantages, and shape or undermine U.S. policy…