Ethan Gutmann, an award-winning China analyst and human-rights investigator, told the story of Falun Gong organ harvesting with intelligence and heart in his acclaimed book The Slaughter. His searing reporting drew death threats—and helped bring down Taipei’s mayor, Dr. Ko Wen-Je for complicity in Beijing’s organ harvesting operations. As a result of his efforts, he was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2017. After his success in spotlighting the operations of China’s transplant tourism, Gutmann’s way forward was clear. Refugees were crossing the Kazakh border, fleeing China in a vivid display of human endurance. But Beijing had changed the rules. Throughout Central Asia, human rights investigators were now considered spies. The Chinese press explicitly identified Gutmann as a new “Cold Warrior.” Gutmann mustered a 4×4 with no GPS tracker, his foster daughter, skis, a paper map, and a compass. They drove from Germany to the Kazakh border where they were searched and biometrically photographed. Then, from the standpoint of electronic surveillance, the duo vanished into thin air. The full story is in The Xinjiang Procedure. Gutmann’s affiliations have included the Sarah Scaife Foundation, Victims of  Communism Memorial Foundation, the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, the Free Congress Research and Education Foundation, and the Brookings Institution.  Gutmann has testified before the U.S. Congress, the European Parliament, and the United Nations.