US: New York resident charged with spying for China
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US authorities accused Tang of completing “tasks at the direction of [China’s] Ministry of State Security (MSS), which is [China’s] principal civilian intelligence agency.”
Tang allegedly provided Chinese intelligence officials with information on “individuals and groups viewed by [Beijing] as potentially adverse” to its interests, including “prominent US-based Chinese democracy activists and dissidents.”
The department also accused him of falsely claiming to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) that he no longer had access to the email account he used to communicate with his MSS handler.
Authorities in Western countries have increasingly accused Beijing of engaging in surveillance of Chinese diaspora communities. Earlier this month, a Chinese-American academic, also a New York resident, was convicted of spying for Beijing.
