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Shujun Wang, a dapper 76-year-old Chinese American author, was found guilty today of espionage after a 7-day trial in federal court that exposed a widespread and elaborate effort by the Chinese government to infiltrate the United States and to influence the public’s views of the Chinese Communist Party.
A jury of six men and six women, including three who speak Mandarin Chinese, deliberated for about six hours before finding him guilty of acting as an unregistered agent of a foreign government, making false statements to federal authorities, and using personal contact information of others in a way that assisted in a crime.
He faces up to 25 years in prison. Wang is to be sentenced on Jan. 9, 2025.
Dressed in a dark gray suit with pink pinstripes, Wang closed his eyes as he listened to the verdict through a translating device held to his ear. Outside of court, he continued to express his innocence of the charges.
“This verdict feels unjust to me,” Wang told RFA in Chinese as he exited the courthouse. He said he had not yet decided whether to appeal.
When asked about his next steps, he smiled and said that instead of writing a book about the pro-democracy movement, he plans to write one about life in American prisons that he would title “An American Prison Memoir.”
“I’m a writer. Writing a book is easy for me,” he said.
Wang became a figure of intrigue in the Chinese pro-democracy movement of Flushing, Queens, where he lives, when he was charged with working secretly for China’s Ministry of State Security, or MSS, a powerful agency that serves as Beijing’s equivalent of the CIA and the FBI.
“The indictment could have been the plot of a spy novel, but the evidence is shockingly real that the defendant was a secret agent for the Chinese government,” Breon Peace, U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of New York, said in a statement after the verdict was announced.
Wang’s case is part of a larger drama that has pitted U.S. authorities against China’s spy masters. The U.S. attorney’s office in Brooklyn has filed charges against dozens of people over the past several years, accusing them of espionage or similar crimes.
https://americanmilitarynews.com/2024/08/us-historian-found-guilty-of-working-as-chinese-spy/
Article:
Shujun Wang, a dapper 76-year-old Chinese American author, was found guilty today of espionage after a 7-day trial in federal court that exposed a widespread and elaborate effort by the Chinese government to infiltrate the United States and to influence the public’s views of the Chinese Communist Party.
A jury of six men and six women, including three who speak Mandarin Chinese, deliberated for about six hours before finding him guilty of acting as an unregistered agent of a foreign government, making false statements to federal authorities, and using personal contact information of others in a way that assisted in a crime.
He faces up to 25 years in prison. Wang is to be sentenced on Jan. 9, 2025.
Dressed in a dark gray suit with pink pinstripes, Wang closed his eyes as he listened to the verdict through a translating device held to his ear. Outside of court, he continued to express his innocence of the charges.
“This verdict feels unjust to me,” Wang told RFA in Chinese as he exited the courthouse. He said he had not yet decided whether to appeal.
When asked about his next steps, he smiled and said that instead of writing a book about the pro-democracy movement, he plans to write one about life in American prisons that he would title “An American Prison Memoir.”
“I’m a writer. Writing a book is easy for me,” he said.
Wang became a figure of intrigue in the Chinese pro-democracy movement of Flushing, Queens, where he lives, when he was charged with working secretly for China’s Ministry of State Security, or MSS, a powerful agency that serves as Beijing’s equivalent of the CIA and the FBI.
“The indictment could have been the plot of a spy novel, but the evidence is shockingly real that the defendant was a secret agent for the Chinese government,” Breon Peace, U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of New York, said in a statement after the verdict was announced.
Wang’s case is part of a larger drama that has pitted U.S. authorities against China’s spy masters. The U.S. attorney’s office in Brooklyn has filed charges against dozens of people over the past several years, accusing them of espionage or similar crimes.
https://americanmilitarynews.com/2024/08/us-historian-found-guilty-of-working-as-chinese-spy/
