Chinese influence case in US leads to convictions over alleged foreign agent activity
A Chinese community group president in Manhattan has been found guilty of acting as an unauthorised foreign agent for China, in a case that US authorities say involved the first known overseas police station in the country. In a separate case in California, Arcadia Mayor Eileen Wang pleaded guilty to posting propaganda for Beijing. The two outcomes were announced in the same week and add to a growing set of US prosecutions linked to alleged Chinese influence operations.Lu Jianwang, 64, had set up an office above a ramen store in Manhattan's Chinatown in 2022, according to the case described in... [Continue Reading]
360LiveNews | 17 May 2026 01:01 LONDON
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