When a scholar's pursuit of knowledge becomes a geopolitical instrument, his family is left to navigate the vast silence between diplomacy and detention. U Min Zin, a Myanmar policy researcher and former democracy activist, has been held in a Chinese prison since June on espionage charges following an academic conference in Kunming — charges his government has deemed wrongful. As Xi Jinping arrived in Washington for a state summit, his wife Sylvia appeared before Congress to ask that one leader speak plainly to another about the cost of using scholars as leverage. It is an old and painful stor
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U Min Zin has been imprisoned since June and subjected to up to six hours of daily interrogations; his wife reports being unable to speak with him and anxiously awaiting monthly consular visits to confirm he is alive.