The United States accused China of harassing Chinese activists based in its territory, allegedly being rejected by Beijing on Thursday.
“The United States will not tolerate malicious illegal activities that target American residents and undermine our precious American values and rights on American soil,” said American lawyer Breon Peace, who announced the charges against five men.
Peace added, “a three-case (related) campaign for silence, harassment, mistrust and spy on American residents to exercise freedom of expression.”
However, China called the accusations “slander,” and China's foreign affairs spokesman Zhao Lijian said at a press conference on Thursday that this is a “manipulated” charge, and Beijing “does not require citizens to participate in illegal activities” in the country of residence.
In the first case, Lin Qiming, an agent of the National Security Department of China (MSS), was criminally prosecuted for a conspiracy to defame a Chinese dissident living in New York running for a New York-based parliament.
Although dissidents have not been confirmed, his profile is consistent with that of Yan Xiong, a former student leader of a democracy demonstration held in Tiananmen Square in 1989.
According to the complaint, Lin contacted a private detective in the United States to find compromising information about Jan, who fled to the United States in 1992 and served as a pastor in the US military. In September, he announced that he was looking for the Democratic Party's Long seat nomination on the island of the New York Congress.
In the second case, prosecutors accused 73-year-old Shujun Wang, a prominent Chinese-born scholar residing in Queens, New York, of acting as an agent for the Chinese government.
According to prosecutors, Wang, who was arrested and convicted on Wednesday, sentenced to up to 20 years in prison, founded a democratic organization, but since at least 2015, it “operates in secret under the direction and control of several MSS officers.”
In the third case, fans from New York “Frank” Liu (62) and Matthew Zhiburis (49) and China's Quiang “Jason” Sun (40) were accused of acting as agents of the Chinese government and plotting a conspiracy to degrade the credibility of democratic activists living in the United States.
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