AP Photo: Chinese President Xi Jinping, right, and then U.S. Vice President Joe Biden. (Headline USA) Nine U.S. residents have been arrested and accused of spying for China.
The defendants received an indictment from a federal grand jury in New York for “acting and conspiring to act in the United States as illegal agents of the People’s Republic of China ,” among other charges.
“As alleged, the defendants, acting as agents of the PRC, carried out an illegal and clandestine campaign to harass and threaten targeted U.S. residents in order to force them to return to the PRC,” said Acting U.S. Attorney Jacquelyn M. Kasulis. “Unregistered, roving agents of a foreign power are not permitted to engage in secret surveillance of U.S. residents on American soil, and their illegal conduct will be met with the full force of U.S. law. To the extent the PRC seeks to repatriate its citizens to […]
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