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1 month ago | 
rfa.org | Jack Adamović Davies |Jane H-C. Tang
The governments of Taiwan and Palau have both been warned that offers of investment from the Cambodian conglomerate Prince Group represent threats to each nation’s security and sovereignty.
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2 months ago | 
globalsecurity.org | Jane H-C. Tang |John Pike
NPR's Emily Feng reflects on a decade in China in her new book, 'Where Only Red Flowers Bloom.' By Jane Tang for RFA and Jeff Wang for RFA Mandarin 2025.02.22 After nearly a decade covering China as an NPR correspondent, Emily Feng returned to Washington, D.C. Her reporting spanned a period of profound social and economic change : Xi Jinping's consolidation of power; the Xinjiang detention camps; Hong Kong's pro-democracy movement and the crackdown against it; China's strict zero-COVID...
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Dec 16, 2024 | 
rfa.org | Jane H-C. Tang
An organization that bears the hallmarks of a Chinese government influence operation lauded the access alleged Chinese spy Yang Tengbo had to two British prime ministers. Photographs of Yang, 50, alongside David Cameron and Teresa May were featured as evidence of his influence when he was presented an award by Huarenbon, or the “Chinese People’s List,” in 2019, RFA can reveal.
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Nov 7, 2024 | 
rfa.org | Jane H-C. Tang
This story was reported with the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation. Read their story hereOn an early morning in late July, a luxury expedition cruise ship, boasting the latest in high-end Arctic travel, made a slow approach to the docks of Ny-Ålesund, a remote settlement in Norway’s Svalbard Islands. At 79 degrees north latitude, Ny-Ålesund is the northernmost inhabited outpost on Earth. Isolated in the Arctic’s desolate winter, it hosts just 30 year-round residents.
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Oct 3, 2024 | 
rfa.org | Jane H-C. Tang |Tara McKelvey
A Chinese national convicted of murdering a well-known U.S.-based Chinese dissident in Queens has been sentenced to 25 years to life in prison. The 2022 stabbing death of Jim Li, a New York lawyer, by Zhang Xiaoning, a 27-year-old woman from China, sent shock waves through New York’s Chinese American community. On Wednesday, she was sentenced in the Queens Criminal Court in Queens County, New York. Zhang was charged and convicted of Li’s murder in September.
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Sep 7, 2024 | 
rfa.org | Tara McKelvey |Jane H-C. Tang
New York’s ethnic Chinese community reacts to Shujun Wang’s case, as China watchers weigh whether it will change how the country operates in the U.S.Listen to the full episode on your favorite podcasting platforms. Read more in RFA's exclusive special report, "Historian. Activist. Spy? For years an American academic pushed for democracy in his native China. The FBI claims it was a front."Please Subscribe!
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Sep 6, 2024 | 
rfa.org | Jane H-C. Tang
Updated on Sept. 6, 2024, at 5:09 p.m. ET. Linda Sun, a former aide to two New York governors, appears to have received direct orders and bribes from a top Chinese diplomat, according to evidence in the Justice Department’s list of allegations against her. Sun, 41, was arrested on Sept. 3 on 10 federal criminal charges, including acting as an agent for the Chinese government, visa fraud and other offenses while working for Gov. Kathy Hochul and former Gov. Andrew Cuomo.
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Sep 4, 2024 | 
rfa.org | Tara McKelvey |Jane H-C. Tang
A senior-level official at the Chinese consulate in New York, Consul General Huang Ping, has apparently left his position. But a suggestion by New York Gov. Kathy Hochul earlier Wednesday that he was removed from the post was later refuted by the State Department, which said that Huang’s term had ended last month.
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Aug 27, 2024 | 
rfa.org | Jane H-C. Tang
The FBI came to Jen Salen’s door on Wednesday afternoon. Shocked would not even come close to describing her astonishment. “I cried a lot on Wednesday, and I’ve been crying a lot [since],” she told RFA. Earlier that day, Yuanjun Tang, a well-known Chinese dissident in New York who had been married to Salen until June of this year, had been arrested on charges of secretly spying for Beijing. Salen, 55, is not named in the filings against him and is not accused of any wrongdoing.
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Aug 13, 2024 | 
rfa.org | Jane H-C. Tang |Tara McKelvey
The case against Shujun Wang, a former academic in Flushing, Queens, unfolded in a Brooklyn courthouse in late July and early August. Federal prosecutors presented evidence showing he had been working for the Chinese Ministry of State Security intelligence service for years, providing the MSS with information about the pro-democracy movement in the United States.
