A Chinese American scholar, Shujun Wang, was found guilty by a federal jury in New York of charges related to acting as a foreign agent for China. Wang, a pro-democracy activist, was accused of using his reputation to gather information on dissidents and sharing it with the Chinese government's intelligence agency, the Ministry of State Security.
Prosecutors alleged that Wang led a double life for over a decade, portraying himself as a critic of the Chinese government to gain the trust of dissidents, only to betray them by providing information to Beijing. Despite Wang's plea of not guilty, the jury convicted him on charges including conspiring to act as a foreign agent without notifying the U.S. attorney general.
