What this site is not funded by, what every entry has to prove before it's published, and the one distinction the whole platform is built to hold.
uschina.us is not a project of the United States government, the government of China, or any political party in either country. It receives no state funding and takes no editorial direction from any government agency, foreign or domestic. Where a government's own record — a statute, a court filing, an agency report — is the best source for a claim, this site cites it and says so plainly. Citing a government's document is not the same as speaking for that government.
A specific date or date range — not a decade, not "the 1980s."
Named individuals or institutions wherever the record supports it.
Every figure traces to a primary source: a statute, an executive order, an agency report, a court record.
Sources listed at the bottom of the entry, not folded into prose where they can't be verified.
The full source categories and their relative weight are set out under sources.
The Chinese Communist Party is not China. It is a governing apparatus that has ruled China since 1949 — one chapter in a civilization several thousand years older than it, documented on this site under heritage. The American support record exists because the two are easy to collapse into one, and shouldn't be: criticizing the Party's conduct toward its own citizens, from Tiananmen to Xinjiang to Hong Kong, is not criticism of the Chinese people, and American support for the people named in that record — asylum, education, sanctuary, statutory protection — was never support for whichever government happened to hold Beijing at the time.
This site keeps that line intentionally sharp. Where an entry documents harm, it names the Party organ, statute, or official responsible, not "China" as an undifferentiated subject. Where an entry documents partnership, it names the individuals and institutions on both sides who built it.