One minute, you’re a
successful 27 year-old American entrepreneur, co-founding a business in
Beijing, China. Years of your life have been dedicated to learning Mandarin,
establishing a career and building a life for yourself in East Asia.
Next, you’re falsely and
arbitrarily accused of “illegal employment” by CCP (Chinese Communist Party)
authorities, kidnapped, and locked in the back of a Chinese prison transport
vehicle.
Sadly, this isn’t cleverly
scripted Hollywood fiction.
This was a very real and
horrifying experience for native Californian, Steven Schaerer, who spent five
years of his life living and working in Beijing, China.
Steven was transported to a
black-site prison compound on the outskirts of Beijing where he endured a month
of CCP detention, torture, and conditions so horrific, “suicide” warnings were
plastered on the walls.
All of your belongings have
been taken. You don’t know where you are, how long you’ll be detained and
you've just been thrown into a foreign prison cell with 16 violent inmates. The
last thing you hear is a CCP guard slamming the barred metal door shut behind
you.
Could you survive?
Steven Schaerer survived
communist Chinese incarceration, torture, and deportation. Steven is a proud
first generation American from California’s Bay Area, and is the proud
bi-racial son of immigrant parents from Switzerland and Mexico.
He was the first person in
his family to attend university earning a degree in chemistry from Sonoma State
University in Northern California. In addition to English, Steven also speaks
Mandarin, Spanish, and successfully co-founded a business in Beijing in his
mid-20's.
Steven is a staunch
advocate for and defender of freedom, liberty, the Constitution, free-market
capitalism, Human Rights and the American way of life.