American prosecutors on Monday accused 13 people of committing espionage-linked crimes in the US on behalf of the Chinese government.
Their charges, spread over three separate cases, include: attempting to force a Chinese national in America to return to China; attempting to interfere with the federal criminal prosecution of a Chinese company, said to be Huawei; and attempting to recruit US academics and government officials in the US to spy for China.
Ten of those charged, the Justice Department says, are Chinese intelligence and security agents. Two individuals have been arrested in connection with the charges.
Two of those charged, Quanzhong An and Guangyang An, were arrested on Thursday, and the remainder are still at large. They're alleged participants in Operation Foxhunt, a PRC security initiative to force purported fugitives in foreign countries to return home. According to Uncle Sam, Quanzhong An held a US green card as a Chinese citizen, and his daughter Guangyang was a US citizen who was also born in China.