(TibetanReview.net, Sep17’25) – A prominent member of New York’s Chinese dissident community, granted asylum in 2002, has pleaded guilty Sep 16 to spying on his fellow activists on behalf of the Chinese government, reported the AP Sep 17. He is set to be sentenced in January and faces up to five years in prison if convicted.
The so-called dissident, Yuanjun Tang, 68, had long presented himself as an outspoken critic of the Chinese Communist Party, joining monthly protests outside the country’s Manhattan consulate and founding a pro-democracy nonprofit in Flushing, Queens, where he has lived since 2002, the report noted.
But while publicly advocating against his homeland’s government...





