[6] During his time at university, Fu engaged in political activism[2] and started the process of joining the Chinese Communist Party, with the intention of becoming a government official.

[4] On July 8, they left detention after having been beaten, starved, mistreated, and witnessed horribly cruel treatment of other prisoners, and were warned not to engage with foreigners.

Authorities said that Fu could keep his job and stay in the dormitory at the Communist Party school, and would not have to pay any fines, but he was subsequently fired and his wife was not able to graduate, although she was weeks away from being able to.

Rather than face the penalty, they emigrated to the then-British colony of Hong Kong, where Cai gave birth to Daniel Fu (Chinese: 傅博恩; pinyin: Fù Bó'ēn).

[9] The National Association of Evangelicals successfully lobbied the Clinton White House to get Fu political asylum in the United States,[4] where he immigrated in 1997, settling in Philadelphia[3] and attending nearby Westminster Theological Seminary.

[6] In July 1998, Fu and Cai moved to neighboring Glenside, Pennsylvania, to live with another Chinese family in a house purchased by an anonymous donor.

[9] In 2009, Fu persuaded the Bush National Security Council and State Department to grant asylum to the family of Gao Zhisheng, a lawyer known for his defense of house Christians and other sensitive groups.

[3] In May 2012, Fu translated legal activist Chen Guangcheng's appeal to travel to the US in a special congressional hearing convened by representative Chris Smith (R-NJ).

[11] In America, New York University (NYU) technicians mistakenly announced that they had found spyware installed on an iPad and iPhone that Fu had given to Chen via his wife Heidi Cai.