Prosecutors said that at the behest of China’s main intelligence agency, the Ministry of State Security, Shujun Wang lived a double life for over a decade.

A Chinese American scholar was convicted Tuesday of U.S. charges of using his reputation as a pro-democracy activist to gather information on dissidents and feed it to his homeland’s government.

A federal jury in New York delivered the verdict in the case of Shujun Wang, who helped found a pro-democracy group in the city.

Prosecutors said that at the behest of China’s main intelligence agency, the Ministry of State Security, Wang lived a double life for over a decade. He held himself out as a critic of the Chinese government so that he could build rapport with people who actually opposed it, then betrayed their trust by telling Beijing what they said and planned, prosecutors said.

  • @can
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    11 month ago

    5 hours later and you’re still the only one bringing up that concept…

    • AmidFuror
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      11 month ago

      True. But there’s only one other comment on the post, so clearly not a hotbed of conversation.

      I think I misjudged the Venezuela people.

      • @can
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        1 month ago

        Yeah I have no context for your comment at all