Posted on 10/18/2020 8:34:27 AM PDT by bitt
Beijing is threatening to take Americans in China hostage if the Department of Justice doesn’t drop its prosecution of several Chinese research scientists arrested on U.S. soil this year, according to a report on Saturday.
Chinese government officials have repeatedly warned their U.S. counterparts that Americans in China face being detained if its demands are not met, The Wall Street Journal reported, citing sources familiar with the matter.
The drastic action — dubbed “hostage diplomacy” — would be in retaliation for the arrests of at least five Chinese military-affiliated scholars visiting American universities to conduct research.
The scientists were charged with visa fraud for allegedly lying to U.S. immigration authorities about their active duty statuses with China’s People’s Liberation Army.
The nation first began issuing the warnings over the summer, after Chinese research scientist Juan Tang, who worked at the University of California, Davis, was questioned by the FBI and took up residence for a month in China’s San Francisco consulate.
Chinese officials vowed to retaliate if she wasn’t allowed to leave the consulate and return home, according to the report.
U.S. officials expected China to make good on the threat — but it didn’t, and the FBI arrested Tang in July when she left consulate grounds, the Journal reported.
Tang is currently out on bail after pleading not guilty to visa fraud charges. Her lawyer, Malcolm Segal, denied that China had sought to interfere in his client’s case.
At least four other researchers have been accused of hiding their ties to the Chinese military and pleaded not guilty to similar charges.
The State Department ordered China in July to close its Houston consulate and told all Chinese military researchers remaining in the U.S. to leave.
Sources told the Journal the decision was made after U.S. officials said Chinese diplomats
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speaking of china, when is the ‘China Dossier’ gonna surface? Trump should troll the left and say there may be a china dossier against biden- china china china
I know the spy game is played on many levels.....BUT....this is unreal.
And China is threatening Canadian citizens living in Hong Kong because Canada is willing to take in Hong Kong refugees. I think the path of wisdom would be to leave China rather than stay.
We have the usual number of Hollywood airheads this presidential election season threatening to go overseas if the Republican candidate wins. Looks like China will put up free accommodations for them. A match made in heaven
What kind of idiot would be in China right now anyway?
My view? Going to China is and has been like going to an Islamist country: You go at your own peril.
Unless it’s directly related to our Nation’s National Security, and I mean, DIRECTLY RELATED, no American needs to be in that country.
And those that DO GO, need to sign paperwork acknowledging they know ahead of time the dangers of not being allowed to come back, and being jailed by China.
Period.
C’mon man!!
I guess we all need one juicy euphemism a day.
This should make the discussion involving emails between Hunter Biden and China all the more juicier. Imagine at about this time in 1980 if such communications between a prominent Democrat’s son and Ayatollah Khomeini’s people were discovered?
Fine. Then we’ll take those islands in the South China Sea the Chicoms want so badly.
Now that this is out, the administration should issue an official travel warning against traveling to China.
Like the kind we issue during a war.
Agreed. The only way to deal with China is NOT dealing with. Order all Americans home. Give the Chinese an ultimatum. We refuse to fork over another penny to them for anything. As of this moment we no longer will purchase any chinese crap. We will no longer feed them. We no longer will acknowledge they exist. Then the silent treatment will begin.
They are NOT researchers they are spy’s
It would be an act of war if the Chicoms do this.
Are the Commies currently holding any of our people?
If so it’s a standard spy swap.
If they start grabbing U.S. citizens who are not spies it is another act of war.
It it ends up being a spy swap, there are a whole lot of Chinese here already. Target rich environment.
Business people whose companies depend on Chinese parts and products, who have little choice but to physically be there to monitor Chinese quality control.
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