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Speaker 2: Alleged Chinese American pro democracy activists has been charged with
spying on fellow dissidents in New York for the Chinese government.
One of Yuan June's Tang's alleged Marx was a congressional
candidate who was forced to pull out of the race,
according to an indictment, claiming at the time he was
the victim of a smear campaign. Tang, sixty seven years old,
was arrested after federal prosecutor said he secretly worked for
the Chinese Ministry of State Secrety Security. He conspired to
work as a foreign agent of China without properly registering
with US authorities. Tang in a flushing as a naturalized
American citizen who was imprisoned in China after the deadly
nineteen eighty nine to pro democracy protests. In two thousand
and two, he defected a Taiwan and was then granted
political asylum in the US, where he has regularly worked
with fellow Chinese dissidents since moving to the city. He
has demonstrated against the Chinese government, including a monthly protest
in front of the Chinese consulate. However, the complaint charges
he has actually been collecting information to send back to
the Chinese government looks like a double agent. Specifically, Tang
regularly provided information had gathered about individuals and groups viewed
by the PRC publicist Republic of China's potentially adverse to
the PRC's interest. Among his targets was a Chinese pro
democracy activists who ran for Congress in twenty twenty two,
Jiong Yan, a pro democracy activist in Iraqi war veteran.
But Yan dropped out of the race, exclusively telling the
Post of the time he knew he was the victim
of spying by unregistered Chinese agents. Yan, who was also
a pastor, said he was the victim of a SMIA
campaign that includes setting him up with a prostitute, which
was which left him unable to raise money in his community.
The Post first revealed that Chinese spies working out of
an office above a Chinatown noodle shop in Lower Manhattan,
we're allegedly spying on their own nationals and Operation fox Hunt.
In addition to the unofficial Chinese police station in the city.
There are some one hundred clandestine Chinese police stations around
the world, according to a report by Safeguard Defenders. As
part of the alleged espionage work, Tang traveled twice to
macaua once the China between twenty nineteen and twenty twenty
three for face to face meetings with his handlers. An
exchange for cash, Tang provided the Chinese government with information
about pro democracy events in the US. In one instance,
Tang man with an MSS officer from China who installed
his phone with a bug that allowed all photos and
videos to be transmitted directly to the handlers in China.
The compromised phone to take a photograph of an event
at the opening of the June fourth Memorial Museum used
established in remembrants of the Tienaman Square massacre, and sent
the picture to the Chinese