While Xi Jinping purges his military leadership at home, he is also ramping up repression of perceived enemies within the United States. Last November, one week before the opening night of Brooklyn’s inaugural IndieChina Film Festival, its organizer, Zhu Rikun, was woken by the insistent vibration of the phone he uses to speak with friends and relatives back in China.
Zhu picked up to hear his father’s voice and knew immediately that something was wrong. His father, who lives in Guangdong, told him to be careful and not to do anything that would be bad for China. He then began to repeat himself.
