Washington, meanwhile, announced charges against 13 Chinese citizens suspected of working for Beijing’s intelligence services.
The US Attorney General today accused the Chinese state of trying to “undermine the justice system” of the US, and announced charges against 13 Chinese citizens suspected of working for Beijing’s intelligence services.
Citing three separate cases, Merrick Garland said the cases show that “the Chinese state has attempted to interfere with the rights and freedoms of people in the United States and to undermine our judicial system that protects those rights.”
“The Department of Justice will not tolerate any attempt by a foreign power to undermine the rule of law on which our democracy is based,” he added.
Among the cases Garland cited was one involving seven Chinese men accused of trying to force a compatriot residing in the US to return to China as part of a forced repatriation campaign run by Beijing.
Two of the accused were arrested on Thursday in New York.
In a second case, two alleged Chinese intelligence agents are accused of trying to obstruct prosecutions brought in the United States against a Chinese telecommunications company, possibly giant Huawei.
In the third case, four Chinese citizens are charged “in connection with a long-running intelligence campaign that targeted people in the United States to act as agents of the People’s Republic of China.”
The ministry made these announcements the day after Xi Jinping was re-elected as the leader of the Chinese Communist Party and thus his country for a third consecutive term.
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