On Saturday I took a lady for skydive.. As we’re walking out to the plane i was doing a short interview and asking why she wanted to go skydiving.
She replied “I’m celebrating my freedom”.
She went on to explain to me that she had been in a Chinese prison for over 3 years and was only released 8 months ago.
She is a news reporter/journalist and was working in China at the time, but is an Australian citizen and lived in Australia the majority of her life.
She explained she was detained by the Chinese government after the Australian government wanted to formally investigate into the origins of covid and the potential of it originating from China.
Presumably the Chinese government didn’t like that idea, so they responded by gathering this lady, an Australian citizen, and tossing her into a jail cell as some kind of retaliation. She referred to it as hostage diplomacy, which is a WILD term and an insane strategy.
She remained in a cell for the following 3 years and 2months where she was only able to leave ONCE A MONTH to engage with the Embassy.
Her name is Cheng Lei.
It was an honour to take Cheng Lei for her first skydive - she absolutely loved it.
It’s impossible to not see the universe at work with meetings of this kind.
I will onboard her to bitcoin and nostr.
