A trial in a US federal court has resulted in three people being convicted of various charges stemming from allegations that China has used pressure campaigns to coerce expatriates living in America to return to China as part of an effort called “Operation Fox Hunt”. Private investigator Michael McMahon and two Chinese citizens, Zheng Congying and Zhu Yong, were accused of scaring tactics aimed at a former Chinese official living in New Jersey who Beijing wanted to repatriate. Zhu was convicted of acting as an illegal foreign agent, interstate stalking conspiracy, stalking, and conspiring to act as an illegal foreign agent. Zheng was convicted of stalking and stalking conspiracy but acquitted of the other charges. McMahon was convicted of all charges except conspiracy to act as a foreign agent. The trial was the first to result from a spate of US prosecutions scrutinising Operation Fox Hunt, with US authorities viewing it as an exercise in “transnational repression.”
Men Convicted in US Trial over China’s Operation Fox Hunt Repatriation Campaign
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