Federal prosecutors in New York on Wednesday charged five people with working on behalf of China's secret police to spy on Chinese nationals in the US.
US Olympic figure skater Alysa Liu and her father Arthur Liu—a former political refugee— were among those vicitimized in a spying operation that the Justice Department.
Five men accused of acting on behalf of the Chinese government have been charged with brazen and wide-ranging schemes to stalk and harass Chinese dissidents in the United States, including by seeking to derail the election bid of a little-known congressional candidate, the Justice Department said Wednesday.
Tiananmen Square dissident-turned-New Yorker Xiong Yan laughs off the plot to frame him with porn or a sex worker, saying, 'That's made me more brave.'