A Chinese American scholar has been convicted 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
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.
Wang was convicted of charges including conspiring to act as a foreign agent without notifying the attorney general. He had pleaded not guilty.Wang came to New York in 1994 to teach after doing so at a Chinese university. He later became a U.S. citizen.According to prosecutors, Wang composed emails — styled as “diaries” — that recounted conversations, meetings and plans of various critics of the Chinese government., prosecutors said.
In other, encrypted messages, Wang relayed details of upcoming pro-democracy events and plans to meet with a prominent Hong Kong dissident while the latter was in the U.S., according to an indictment. But, they said, he claimed he didn’t provide anything really valuable, just information already in the public domain.“In general, fair to say he was very open and talkative with you, right?” defense attorney Zachary Margulis-Ohnuma asked an undercover agent who approached Wang in 2021 under the guise of being affiliated with the Chinese security ministry.
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