曼谷——在战火纷飞的缅甸经济首都仰光，亚当·卡斯蒂略（Adam Castillo）被锁在警察局的一间办公室里，他意识到自己并非完全走投无路。他的Apple Watch仍然与iPhone连着，而他的iPhone几个小时前刚刚被睡在隔壁的警察没收。
BANGKOK—Locked in an office at a police station in Yangon, the economic capital of war-torn Myanmar, Adam Castillo realized he wasn’t entirely out of luck. His Apple Watch was still linked to his iPhone, which hours earlier had been confiscated by the officers now sleeping next door.
6月12日凌晨4点51分，这位自称“骨子里是MAGA”的退役海军陆战队员在微型屏幕上向华盛顿的一个朋友敲击发出了求救信息：“被扣押在缅甸机场。没有指控。没有逮捕。拒绝我的律师。”卡斯蒂略是一位40岁的加州商人，由于与美国商会当地分会发生纠纷，最终被关押在缅甸臭名昭著的监狱里——该国的军事政权并不受美国承认。
“DETAINED AT MYANMAR AIRPORT,” Castillo, a retired Marine who calls himself “MAGA to the bone,” tapped out to a friend in Washington on the miniature screen at 4:51 a.m. on June 12. “No charge. No arrest. Denying my lawyer.”Castillo, a 40-year-old Californian businessman, would eventually end up in a notorious Myanmar prison—under a military regime that the U.S. doesn’t recognize—because of a dispute with the local chapter of the American Chamber of Commerce.
上个月，一个美国外交团队乘坐包机抵达缅甸，据美国官员称，该团队获得了特朗普总统的授权并得到了副总统万斯的 支持，在卡斯蒂略被扣押三个月后，成功促成了他的获释。
Last month, an American diplomatic team that U.S. officials said was authorized by President Trump and backed by Vice President JD Vance arrived in Myanmar on a chartered jet and secured Castillo’s release, three months after he was detained.