{"id":65804,"date":"2023-05-15T06:16:27","date_gmt":"2023-05-15T10:16:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cablemanpro.com\/wallstreetpr\/china-sentences-us-citizen-78-to-life-in-prison-on-spying-charges-65804"},"modified":"2023-05-15T06:16:27","modified_gmt":"2023-05-15T10:16:27","slug":"china-sentences-us-citizen-78-to-life-in-prison-on-spying-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cablemanpro.com\/wallstreetpr\/china-sentences-us-citizen-78-to-life-in-prison-on-spying-charges-65804","title":{"rendered":"China sentences US citizen, 78, to life in prison on spying charges"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/world\/world-regions\/china\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">China sentenced<\/a> a 78-year-old U.S. citizen to life in prison on Monday on spying charges, a case that could further deteriorate already damaged ties between Beijing and Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n<p>John Shing-Wan Leung, who also holds permanent residency in Hong Kong, was detained on April 15, 2021, by the local bureau of China&#8217;s counterintelligence agency in the southeastern city of Suzhou, the city\u2019s intermediate court said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Details of the charges have not been publicly released.<\/p>\n<p>His detention came right after the country\u00a0closed its borders and imposed tight restrictions in response to the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/world\/china-threatens-retaliation-eu-weighs-sanctions-beijings-military-aid-russia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><u>CHINA THREATENS RETALIATION AFTER EU WEIGHS SANCTIONS FOR BEIJING\u2019S MILITARY AID TO RUSSIA<\/u><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Suzhou court offered no indication of a connection to China-U.S. relations, but spying charges are highly selective, and no evidence has been released \u2013 a standard practice among many countries aiming to secure their personal connections, networks and access to information, according to The Associated Press.<\/p>\n<p>Investigations and trials in cases like this one are held behind closed doors and public information is generally limited outside vague allegations of infiltration, gathering secrets and threatening state security.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Embassy in Beijing told The AP it was aware of the case, but could not comment further because of privacy concerns.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/politics\/foreign-policy\/state-department\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Department of State<\/a> has no greater priority than the safety and security of U.S. citizens overseas,&#8221; the embassy said in an email.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/future-now-china-russia-revert-1989-world-challenge-us-west\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><u>FUTURE IS NOW: CHINA, RUSSIA REVERT TO PRE-1989 WORLD AND FUNDAMENTALLY CHALLENGE US-LED WEST<\/u><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Chinese prosecutors have a strengthened ability to hold people charged in national security cases, and long pretrial detentions are not uncommon.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Requests for more information and court appeals are typically blocked by the country&#8217;s authoritarian political system and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/world\/xi-chinese-communist-party-tighten-grip-power-peoples-congress-convenes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ruling Communist Party&#8217;s<\/a> complete control over legal matters, civil society and freedom of information.<\/p>\n<p><i>The Associated Press contributed to this report.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/world\/china-sentences-us-citizen-78-life-prison-spying-charges\">Source &#8211; https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/world\/china-sentences-us-citizen-78-life-prison-spying-charges <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China sentenced a 78-year-old U.S. citizen to life in prison on Monday on spying charges, a case that could further deteriorate already damaged ties between [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"twitter_2902945987_2902945987":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[16563],"tags":[],"stock_ticker":[],"class_list":["post-65804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-market-news","entry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.9 - 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