There are more Chinese and they are more segregated from regular American life than Russians, and they have more dollars to spend as well as own more American property. I wonder if they will ever make a series that exploits this possible scenario?
shareThey had no reason to before--they weren't pissed-off at us. But now that we're in a trade war....who knows?
shareChina is the Middle Kingdom, between Heaven and Earth ( the rest of the world ). They saw themselves as better than the rest of us for eternities, and then they got a rude awakening, and they were treated badly by the West as well. They have plenty of reason from many sides to harbor feelings like the Italian fascists had, or the German fascists, to make their country great again and rise from the ashes. The trade war is destabilizing and dangerous, but many see no other way to warn China to start to understand they need to find a place in the modern world. The US is not without blame in most of global politics and we have given both China and Russia reason to mistrust us, but in general we have been fair. China's government manipulates their trade, laws and enslaves their people. The worse China is, the worse Americans get it as well.
shareHave to remember this is set in the late 80's early 90's and a composite on real events that have happened right up until 2010 when they discovered a spy ring setting up families (a mere 8 years ago).
1940 - 2010: https://www.ranker.com/list/stories-of-russian-spies-in-the-us/chase-christy
About the Ten apprehended in 2010: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegals_Program#Agents_apprehended_by_FBI_on_June_27,_2010
A lot of what this show is based around from a New York Times Article in 2010: https://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/30/world/europe/30sleepers.html:
And the children:
For years Donald Heathfield, Tracey Foley and their two children lived the American dream. Then an FBI raid revealed the truth: they were agents of Putin’s Russia. Their sons tell their story:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/may/07/discovered-our-parents-were-russian-spies-tim-alex-foley
But the FBI had not made a mistake, and the truth was so outlandish, it defied comprehension. Not only were their parents indeed Russian spies, they were Russians. The man and woman the boys knew as Mom and Dad really were their parents, but their names were not Donald Heathfield and Tracey Foley. Those were Canadians who had died long ago, as children; their identities had been stolen and adopted by the boys’ parents.
Their real names were Andrei Bezrukov and Elena Vavilova. They were both born in the Soviet Union, had undergone training in the KGB and been dispatched abroad as part of a Soviet programme of deep-cover secret agents, known in Russia as the “illegals”. After a slow-burning career building up an ordinary North American background, the pair were now active agents for the SVR, the foreign spy agency of modern Russia and a successor to the KGB. They, along with eight other agents, had been betrayed by a Russian spy who had defected to the Americans.
Thanks, I'll check that out.
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