🚨 Lin Qiming, an agent with 🇨🇳 Ministry of State Security, asked a US-based private investigator to help manufacture a political scandal that would undermine an unidentified US congressional candidate — believed to be Xiong Yan (熊焱).
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reuters.com/world/us/us-ac…
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reuters.com/world/us/us-ac…
In another case, Chinese government agents spied on employees of an unidentified human rights NGO based in Washington.
In a third case, Chinese government agents tried to intimidate Arthur Liu, a lawyer / political activist in San Francisco and the father of professional
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In a third case, Chinese government agents tried to intimidate Arthur Liu, a lawyer / political activist in San Francisco and the father of professional
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figure skater Alysa Liu, who competed for the US team in the Olympic Winter Games in Beijing.
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Five individuals have been charged variously with stalking, harassing and spying on US residents on behalf of 🇨🇳 secret police. The defendants participated in transnational repression schemes to silence critics of China residing in the US.
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justice.gov/opa/pr/five-in…
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🚨 Wang Shujun (王书君), a military historian, is particularly hideous: he collected information on dissidents by posing as a cofounder of a pro-democracy group in the US. He ratted on a number of Hong Kong pro-democracy activists who were subsequently arrested and jailed!
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🔻 ‘scholar’ + 🇨🇳 MSS spy / informant Wang Shujun (王書君) who has written several books on modern Chinese history
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