A real estate businessman who aided a Chinese effort to pressure an expatriate to return home has been sentenced to over a year in a U.S. prison.
U.S. prosecutors say Quanzhong An’s activities were part of the Chinese government's “Operation Fox Hunt” repatriation campaign. Beijing says the initiative is about pursuing people who have fled justice. But Washington sees it as transnational repression, a term for governments working to silence dissenters beyond their borders.
