Not a record of American perfection. A record of consistent partnership with Chinese people seeking sovereignty, self-government and a decent living. Fourteen dated cases, each anchored to a statute, an executive action, a court record, or a named person whose story can be checked, plus one closing essay that argues what they add up to and says plainly that it isn't a fifteenth case.
Not the Flying Tigers again. The Lend-Lease aid that kept moving after V-J Day, documented to a State Department memo: $839,950,223 estimated through October 1946.
3,465 stranded students and scholars kept their status under the 1948 Displaced Persons Act, 2,777 more under the 1953 Refugee Relief Act. Named outcome: the 1957 Nobel laureates Lee and Yang.
A dedicated visa carve-out, a Hong Kong parole program run by Robert Kennedy, and the 1965 reform that made both unnecessary. The unsourced 200,000 figure has been removed.
The 1992 US-Hong Kong Policy Act, the 2020 National Security Law, and the American response that followed within weeks.
A disaster declared within a day, $500,000 from USAID, and the honest contrast with Tangshan in 1976, when China refused outside help entirely.
The Country of Particular Concern designation, a named Fifth Circuit asylum case, and a year-over-year State Department count of Falun Gong practitioners imprisoned.
The Guo Wengui conviction and sentence, plus the federal prosecutions of two smaller fraud schemes that targeted Chinese nationals directly.
Open Doors data from a 127,628-student year to a 372,532-student peak to the current, honestly falling 265,919.
Fang Lizhi, Wei Jingsheng, Chen Guangcheng, and the corrected story of Gao Zhisheng, whose family reached America while he did not.
Executive Order 12711 and the Chinese Student Protection Act, the two instruments that turned an emergency response into permanent status.
The Taiwan Relations Act and the first direct presidential election it helped make possible, held during a missile crisis.
The statute that flips the burden of proof on goods tied to Xinjiang, and puts it on the importer.
GAO and CRS figures replacing an unsourced $100 million claim with numbers an order of magnitude smaller and fully cited.
Rebuilt from scratch on a real anchor: the Congressional-Executive Commission on China, created in the same 2000 statute that granted permanent trade relations.
Not a dated case. Labeled and published as what it actually is: a closing argument built on the fourteen pages before it.
An earlier draft of this set claimed roughly 200,000 mainland refugees admitted between 1950 and 1970, $80 million in American aid after the 2008 Sichuan earthquake, and $100 million a year in civil-society funding. None of the three held up against a primary source. All three have been replaced above with the smaller, specific, cited figures that do. This site's front page makes one promise above the rest, built to be checked, and that promise applies to its own earlier drafts as much as to anyone else's claims.
The six tests a case has to pass before it goes up, and why they exist.
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