I have zero confidence that any Hollywood studio would do so with the right level of political nuance, but I would absolutely love to see a movie about this guy's life as a double agent pro-democracy activist in Queens spying on other Chinese dissidents for the government in Beijing, only to get caught but skirt prison due to dementia. What a life.

I have zero confidence that any Hollywood studio would do so with the right level of political nuance, but I would absolutely love to see a movie about this guy's life as a double agent pro-democracy activist in Queens spying on other Chinese dissidents for the government in Beijing, only to get caught but skirt prison due to dementia. What a life. 

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/nyregion/shujun-wang-chinese-spy-sentence.html

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It’s wild how stories like this just float under the radar while we get a dozen CIA thrillers a year