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US arrests three Chinese nationals for visa fraud
The US has charged four Chinese nationals with visa fraud for allegedly lying about their membership of China's armed forces.Three are under arrest while the FBI is seeking to arrest the fourth, who is said to be in China's San Francisco consulate.
FBI agents have also interviewed people in 25 US cities who have an "undeclared affiliation" with China's military.
Prosecutors say it is part of a Chinese plan to send army scientists to the US.
Singapore man admits being Chinese spy in US
A Singaporean man has pleaded guilty in the US to working as an agent of China, the latest incident in a growing stand-off between Washington and Beijing.Jun Wei Yeo was charged with using his political consultancy in America as a front to collect information for Chinese intelligence, US officials say.
Separately, the US said a Chinese researcher accused of hiding her ties to China's military was detained.
China earlier ordered the closure of the US consulate in Chengdu.
The move to shut down the diplomatic mission in the south-western city was in response to the US closing China's consulate in Houston.
FBI arrests Chinese researcher for visa fraud after she hid at consulate in San Francisco
A researcher who took refuge in the Chinese consulate in San Francisco after allegedly lying to investigators about her Chinese military service was arrested and will appear in court on Monday, according to a senior Justice Department official.According to court documents unsealed earlier this week in the Eastern District of California, Juan Tang, a researcher at the University of California, Davis, applied for a nonimmigrant J1 visa in October 2019. The visa was issued in November 2019 and Tang entered the United States a month later.
Tang allegedly made fraudulent statements on her visa application by concealing that she served in the Chinese military. The FBI concluded that Tang was a uniformed officer of the People’s Liberation Army Air Force after photographs of her were uncovered on electronic media seized in accordance with a search warrant.
Officials Push U.S.-China Relations Toward Point of No Return
Top aides to President Trump want to leave a lasting legacy of ruptured ties between the two powers. China’s aggression has been helping their cause.[...] China’s leader, Xi Jinping, has inflamed the fight, brushing aside international concern about the country’s rising authoritarianism to consolidate his own political power and to crack down on basic freedoms, from Xinjiang to Hong Kong. By doing so, he has hardened attitudes in Washington, fueling a clash that at least some in China believe could be dangerous to the country’s interests.
The combined effect could prove to be Mr. Trump’s most consequential foreign policy legacy, even if it’s not one he has consistently pursued: the entrenchment of a fundamental strategic and ideological confrontation between the world’s two largest economies.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 26 2020, @02:18AM (19 children)
The McSally Bill [senate.gov]
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Runaway1956 on Sunday July 26 2020, @02:58AM (4 children)
I don't see much future in this. China has it's own problems.
Though, it is worth pointing out that if Covid19 were the opening salvo in a war of attrition, China would win. They can afford to watch a half billion of their citizens (or subjects) drop dead. 3/4 billion, for that matter. If China remained with a 1/4 billion people, and all the rest of the world is a post-apocolyptic wasteland, filled with tribal warlords, then China effectively rules the world. They can go where they want, when they want, and do what they want, globally.
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 26 2020, @04:14AM (1 child)
I wonder if "property of a foreign state" includes property owned by the citizens of that state. It will be "interesting times" if they start going after real estate and assets owned by Chinese citizens.
(Score: 1) by Sulla on Sunday July 26 2020, @04:26AM
There has been talk about seizing assets of members of the CCP that are stateside (read: members of the party, not necessarily normal citizens). Because the CCP demands that CCP/China are not a distinction, settlements could be paid using Xi's personal assets that are seized.
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(Score: 1) by khallow on Sunday July 26 2020, @12:38PM
Unless, of course, they lost power as a result of the subsequent collapse of society and killed themselves in addition to that mere half a billion Chinese. Their obsession with stability is not an affectation.
(Score: 4, Interesting) by takyon on Sunday July 26 2020, @07:08PM
You need a lot stronger version of COVID to reduce population significantly, with parameters that will probably not succeed or make it more suspicious (highly virulent, highly fatal). Maybe population reduction isn't necessary at all though, just global instability.
China still needs to bulk up before it can dominate the world. It can barely launch a rocket this year. They need more aircraft carriers. Etc. Try again in 2040.
I'm not sure diseases are going to be that much of an existential threat within a few decades. Because if it becomes very trivial for even an amateur to do pathogen bioengineering, there will be an extreme focus on defending against that. Humanity is probably nearing a point where random viruses can actually be fought effectively. The pace of the COVID vaccine development effort may be indicative of that.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 26 2020, @04:53AM (2 children)
Old trick... Could easily get the president reelected. His distractions are proving extremely successful. Humans are very primitive!
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 26 2020, @07:24AM (1 child)
China is too smart to let this go hot before the election. They also want Status Quo Joe.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 26 2020, @08:23AM
Stop importing any pork/soybean/cotton for 3 months from US. Just a skirmish, but it would worth some 7-10 billions of stock to pay warehousing for instead of money in the bank.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Azuma Hazuki on Sunday July 26 2020, @03:51PM (6 children)
And how does this work exactly? How do you sue another country under your own national court system?
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Mojibake Tengu on Sunday July 26 2020, @04:34PM
It works as a pretense for war.
The edge of 太玄 cannot be defined, for it is beyond every aspect of design
(Score: 3, Informative) by takyon on Sunday July 26 2020, @05:36PM (4 children)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justice_Against_Sponsors_of_Terrorism_Act [wikipedia.org]
Your legislature and its court system allow it. The only practical remedy is to allow your country to seize any assets of the other country (or certain citizens, such as People's Liberation Army military officers) within its grasp and distribute them to the victims.
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(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Sunday July 26 2020, @09:18PM (3 children)
So...we're allowed to just go "fuck every other nation's sovereignty" then? This doesn't make sense, and also sets some seriously worrying precedent...not to mention, any other nation would be insane to have anything to do with the US after this was put into action.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2) by takyon on Sunday July 26 2020, @11:08PM
Close allies like Canada or Japan would be fine maintaining relations with the U.S. Especially if the U.S. convinced most of the world that China was responsible for deploying the coronavirus. But that hasn't happened.
Mucking around with the state immunity [wikipedia.org] of China without getting the world on board with completely condemning it first could have devastating consequences, and I expect that bill to be vetoed if it goes anywhere at all. President Obama's only overridden veto was for the Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act that targeted Saudi Arabia.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 27 2020, @09:19AM
Nations do that to each other with somewhat surprising frequency. Usually nothing comes out of it since both sides understand that they are symbolic or the entire world agrees to go along against a common foe. It's the "in rem" claims that they pay real attention to and makes tempers flare, so divestment or repatriation usually occurs after plenty of warning is given.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 28 2020, @02:43PM
What you say would be true if it was one sided. It isn't that uncommon for the US to be sued and for the US to pay out on said lawsuits.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by dry on Sunday July 26 2020, @04:37PM (3 children)
I wonder if this means us Canadians can sue America for its role in causing the cornavirus pandemic? Even with all the local Chinese, the virus came from Washington State here and there's a continuing problem of Americans illegally crossing the border. Considering the state of the pandemic in America, their leadership, and their lack of respect for international borders, they have more to do with the pandemic then China
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 26 2020, @06:56PM (2 children)
Have you considered building a wall and making the USA pay for it?
(Score: 2) by dry on Sunday July 26 2020, @07:51PM (1 child)
There's the Treaty of Ghent that says no walls on the border, we can't even barricade the road by Peace Arch Park where the Americans have left their side open.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 26 2020, @09:28PM
“Treaties you see are like girls and roses; they last while they last.” ― Charles de Gaulle