# A Conversation with a Chinese Person 10 \| The Party Makes Trouble Abroad, and Also Blocks the Road for a Small Number of Young People

Author: Brennan Ruskell
Published: 2026-11-13
Language: en
Source: https://panasia.ai/a-conversation-with-a-chinese-person-10

"These Communist Party dog spies do harm. Sooner or later I will make them pay."

Author / interviewer: Brennan Ruskell

Interviewee: a young Chinese person living abroad

Brennan Ruskell: Why do you think the Communist Party is blocking the road for young people?

Young person: Because the things it does abroad end up as reasons for other people to screen us. I want to study, and they worry I'm stealing technology for the Party. I want to work with someone, and they worry who else is standing behind me. I had no part in those things, and I have no power to stop them, but I still have to explain that I have nothing to do with them. It takes away the power to act, and leaves us the job of explaining and carrying the consequences.

Brennan Ruskell: You mean passing yourself off as a student to do intelligence work?

Young person: Of course. The Party has placed plenty of spies in America. Several of my high-school classmates went to schools on your Proclamation 10043 list, the US order that blocks visas for students from some Chinese schools tied to the military. When you had just put that list out, I asked them what they thought. They said Americans are still fools. How many spies did the Party send into America through those schools? Decades went by before America started to stop it. Too slow to react.

Brennan Ruskell: What does Proclamation 10043 make you think of?

Young person: Honestly, I agree with my classmates. The ones who went to those 10043 schools are all little pinks, the kids who pile on for the Party online, and they are sick in the head. They want Taiwanese, Japanese, and Americans all to die. What they hope for is Ukraine surrendering right now. So I very much agree when they say Americans were slow to react, fooled by them for decades, and only at the end woke up and set up 10043. Honestly, the vast majority of Chinese people are little pinks. So I also think you Americans are fools.

Brennan Ruskell: Why did you also bring up Meta buying Manus, the tech company that came out of China?

Young person: Then I ask you. Suppose, later on, a young person starts a company in China. As long as that company is registered in China, I ask you, will American VCs still invest? Venture funds, the ones that put money into new companies. How much? Investors don't only look at whether you can make it work. They also have to look at whether, after you do, the Party will let you sell, and let them get their money out. Doesn't that risk get taken out of a young person's chance to raise money?

Brennan Ruskell: You think this is done on purpose, to hold people in place?

Young person: The way I see it, it just doesn't want us to have a way out that doesn't go through it. You can make money, but you can't start thinking you'd live well after leaving it. You can have contact with foreign countries, but you can't build a relationship outside that it can't control. Every single thing can be called national security. But does my safety count? Do my job, my income, and my choices count? Or does it only count as security when it still gets the last word?

Brennan Ruskell: What do you most want to say to the people who made these decisions?

Young person: Everything has a price. You will not get a good result, and you will not come to a good end. And on this earth there will be more and more people like me. Just like the last years of the Qing, the old empire before it fell, your good days are over. You cheap, stinking dumbfucks.