US authorities charged a Chinese spy for allegedly attempting to steal trade secrets from American aerospace companies, including a subsidiary of General Electric, in a case where the agent was lured to Europe to be arrested.
The Department of Justice said Yanjun Xu, a Chinese Ministry of State Security operative, had been extradited to the US this week after his arrest in Belgium in April. He appeared to be the first MSS officer brought to the US and charged.
Mr Xu is the second Chinese citizen the US has indicted in as many months in a trade secrets case, as Donald Trump’s administration cracks down on alleged economic espionage by China.
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