Chinese Man in New York City Pleads Guilty to Spying for Beijing

Chinese Man in New York City Pleads Guilty to Spying for Beijing
Chinese Man in New York City Pleads Guilty to Spying for Beijing

The U.S. Department of Justice in Washington on Aug. 7, 2025. Madalina Kilroy/The Epoch Times

A Chinese man living in New York City has pleaded guilty to spying on his fellow activists on behalf of the Chinese regime’s intelligence agency, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York announced on Sept. 16.

Tang Yuanjun, 68, a naturalized U.S. citizen, was a prominent figure in New York’s Chinese dissident community, having participated in protests outside the Chinese Consulate in Manhattan and founded a pro-democracy group, the Chinese Democracy Party Eastern U.S. Headquarters Inc., based in Flushing, Queens.

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