The U.S. authorities on May 9 arrested a man who is believed to have been secretly providing the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) a “blacklist” of U.S.-based pro-democracy dissidents from 2018 to 2022.
Litang Liang, 64, a U.S. citizen living in the Brighton neighborhood of Boston, is charged with conspiring to act as an agent of a foreign government and of doing so without notice to the United States, according to an indictment (pdf) reported by the Boston Globe.
The indictment says the purpose of the conspiracy was “to act at the direction or control of the PRC government in order to covertly advance the PRC government’s goals and agenda within the United States,” referring to the country’s official name of the People’s Republic of China….