Autobiography Tells the Tale of a Christian Capitalist Who Escaped Mao's China

Marked for death by the CCP, he came to America and became a power player in the Republican Party.

Solomon Yue says he was born with three strikes against him. Because of the "crimes" of his family against the people, as interpreted by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), he had no hope of surviving the purges of Mao Zedong. 

Until he escaped and came to America. 

Now he's chosen to tell his story of survival, faith, and thriving under American liberty. In his new autobiography, Counterscript: A Personal and Political Memoir, Yue tells a remarkable tale of the eternal fight for personal liberty that he knows intimately, having risen from a peasant child marked for death in Mao's China to the heights of capitalist prosperity and conservative political influence in America. 

Fittingly, the book releases on Independence Day: July 4, 2026. 

Three Strikes Against Him—Before He Was Born

The introduction by Yue reflects the horrors of accusations of wrongthink in Mao's totalitarian regime:

My late grandfather, John Yue, was a capitalist. He owned a tailor shop that employed 12 tailors and therefore supported 12 families. That was strike one. I was the offspring of a "capitalist pig." I was raised a devout Christian, and my grandfather was an elder in the Methodist Church. The Methodist Church in China is more evangelical than its counterpart in the United States. That was strike two. To the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), religion is the opiate of the masses, so I was labeled the offspring of an "opium pusher." My grandfather was also a deputy police commissioner in the Shanghai British Concession. After the Opium Wars, Shanghai was divided into several foreign districts that included a self-governing British district called a concession. My grandfather oversaw the Chinese police within that concession and from the CCP's perspective, he was an enemy of the state because he was working for a foreign power. Strike three. 

Yue says he was born with something inside him that "prevents me from keeping my mouth shut when I see lies and injustice." He gives his personal recollection of how the CCP took over and ran the schools, turning them into indoctrination centers. " As children," he writes, "the CCP placed my schoolmates and me in state-run brainwashing sessions where we were told to stand in front of the class and self-criticize." He says his father destroyed their only radio out of fear the CCP would catch them listening to Voice of America—a death sentence for the entire family.

Re-Education At the End of a Gun

He just couldn't keep his mouth shut. He criticized the lessons taught by the CCP in school about the "evils" of capitalism. The party responded by threatening to execute him:

We were told to criticize capitalism as well. Capitalism, the CCP said, was exploitation of the masses. The lesson we were to learn was that capitalists were evil because they overproduced milk, for example, then poured it into the ocean to keep the prices artificially high to hurt the poor. But when I walked to school, I saw milk lines down the street for blocks and so I argued: How could communism be so superior if we can't even produce enough milk? The other kids got very excited over this idea. Soon after, my parents got a call from the CCP telling them if they couldn't get me to stay silent, they would "make me disappear in the night" and my parents would "pay for the bullet." I was then sent to a "re-education farm" operated by communist farmers in the countryside outside Shanghai. 

Through family connections, Yue finally found a way to escape to Alaska Pacific University in Anchorage. Knowing only two words of English—"thank you" and "Coca-Cola"—he earned a student visa and started rebuilding his life. 

That started with learning the ABCs. 

Waiting Tables, Mopping Floors, Opposing the CCP

Yue worked hard to put himself through college. Having earned a scholarship, he still had to work entry-level jobs to pay the bills. He writes that it was at this time he became a Republican—after the CCP endorsed Jimmy Carter for reelection. He had to have an interpreter tell him which party Ronald Reagan belonged to. Thus began his journey into American politics and the Republican Party. 

In that time, he started a successful business, married, and built a home. All the while, he says destroying the CCP has stayed central to his life. "I’ve felt throughout my life that God has had His hand on me," Yue writes. "Not a day goes by that I don’t think about how to financially destroy the CCP without a shot fired, or how to protect our Republic from inside this political chess match I’ve come to know so well. Through politics, I’ve found my way to repay America for my newfound freedoms."

A Remarkable American Success Story

Solomon Yue's journey from peasant boy marked for death by a totalitarian regime to the heights of political influence in Republican politics makes for a captivating read. He went from non-personhood to shaping a major American party platform and advising presidential candidates. He went from his parents being told they would "pay for the bullet" to regular invitations to Mar-a-Lago. He went from forced criticism of free market economics to great prosperity created by those very free markets in America's capitalist system. 

All it took was a harrowing escape from Mao's purges to find his way to American liberty. On America's 250th birthday, we celebrate our founding, and we also celebrate these liberation stories that could only result from a constitutional system that recognizes our natural rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

Counterscript: A Personal and Political Memoir is available at Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Walmart, and Black Lyon Publishing. Learn more about the author at www.solomonyue.com, and follow him on X/Twitter @SolomonYue, where he delights in exposing Chinese Communist Party operatives involved in American politics.

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