Chia Pao-yu is alive and well! The Beijing University pro-democracy activist is living in exile
under an assumed name Jean Valjaur (JV). As was rumored in the prequel Year of the Earth
Serpent Changing Colors Chia was not executed for helping to organize the April-June 1989
Tiananmen Square protests. Now in Paris he witnessed the Bataclan terrorist attacks the
Yellow Vest protests and survived the COVID-19 (or Horseshoe Bat) pandemic-after having
survived the AIDS pandemic in China in the 1980s. He pursues his self-study of Asian influence
on western culture with a focus on Pop artists and Beat poets. He likewise critiques the views
of western Maoists like Mylex H. Galvin-whom Chia depicts as a Wokeist before his time. During
the pandemic lockdown Chia reflects on the reasons why he became a pro-democracy
pro-environment and anti-nuclear dissident. In Paris Chia finds work with the Foundation for
Human Values Forever (HVF) directed by the charismatic feminist Bereft LaPlante. He meets
dissidents like himself who have suffered for their political views and gender. Now as a French
citizen Chia participates in Hong Kong protests and takes part in a conference on the Future
of China in Washington DC. There he witnesses President Trump's threat to call in US G.I.
Joes to repress protests in June 2020-that recalls the June 1989 Tiananmen Square repression by
the Chinese Army (PLA). Back in Paris he accidentally learns that the HVF Foundation finances
questionable activities not related to humanitarian causes-and quits after a drunken LaPlante
attempts to assault him sexually. The secretive Society for the Exploration of Cosmic
Consciousness (SECC) publishes his Planetary Manifesto: If the U.S. Balding Eagle the Chinese
Red Dragon the Russian Double-Headed Eagle cannot soon resolve their differences then the
popular hopes of Barbies and Kens for global peace will be crushed by the boots of G.I. Joe.
Just after starting work for the SECC Chia mysteriously disappears in a suspected trade-off
for a Western spy held by Beijing-at least that is the official news story.
