Posted on 07/24/2020 8:23:44 PM PDT by bitt
A Chinese military researcher hiding out in China’s San Francisco consulate has been arrested and is being held in a Sacramento jail after being charged with visa fraud.
It was first reported that Tang Juan was being harbored by China and was wanted by U.S. authorities on Wednesday, the same day that the United States ordered the Chinese government to shut down its consulate in Houston. China retaliated on Friday by ordering the U.S. to shut down its consulate in Chengdu.
A Justice Department official told the Washington Examiner on Friday that Tang Juan, 37, was arrested, and the Sacramento County Sheriff’s Department inmate search shows that Tang was booked at the Sacramento County Main Jail just after midnight early Friday morning. U.S. law enforcement would not have had the authority to enter the Chinese consulate forcibly to arrest Tang, and it is not immediately clear how she ended up in U.S. custody. She is expected to make an appearance by video at a Sacramento federal courtroom Friday afternoon.
Tang was one of four Chinese military members who have been charged by the Justice Department in recent weeks for concealing their ties to China's military and thus committing visa fraud while acting as students or researchers at U.S. universities.
“These members of China’s People Liberation Army applied for research visas while hiding their true affiliation with the PLA,” Assistant Attorney General for National Security John Demers said this week. “This is another part of the Chinese Communist Party’s plan to take advantage of our open society and exploit academic institutions.”
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Curiouser and curiouser.
She probably surrendered for the same reason that a high-ranking would-be Chinese defector did 8 years ago - the prospect of spending the rest of her life in the consulate.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wang_Lijun#U.S._consulate_incident
Will she be turned and recruited by the CIA? Hopefully, if they’re not too busy trying to undermine Trump.
How soon before the chicoms retaliate and arrest an American?
fyi
“Will she be turned and recruited by the CIA? “
... or will she be released by our broken justice system? God I hope not.
‘Authorities also report that Tang Juan’s brother, San Juan, was still at large in the Bronx, although unconfirmed sightings have been reported in Hackensack, NJ.’
Probably is and has been a CIA participant.
to china
this doesn’t mean we’re turning off HAARP
We’re still gonna collapse that dam
I heard that he escaped to Puerto Rico.
The other brother, Don Juan, is writing poetry and romancing the ladies in Spain.
That comment wins the internet!
Alnternate Headline “ Fugitive Tang Juan arrested in San Francisco While picking up a restaurant order of Moo Goo Gai Pan and general Tso’s Chicken.”
The truth is that she turmned herself in, expecting far better treatment in the USA than she would get at home in the PRC,a bullet in the back of her head for getting caught.
1 down, xxx Million to go. Next needs to be nazi pelousy’s Driver. And her...
She probably would rather do 5 years in a medium security Federal prison than go back to China.
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