Accused of espionage, a US federal judge acquitted Chinese professor Hu Anming

Original title: accused of participating in espionage, a U.S. federal judge acquitted Chinese professor Hu Anming
Edited by: Li Zedong
According to CCTV news on September 10, on September 9 local time, a U.S. federal judge acquitted Hu Anming, a former Chinese professor at the University of Tennessee who was investigated on charges of espionage.
In response to the trump administration's "China Action Plan", the Federal Bureau of investigation (FBI) launched a large-scale investigation on Chinese scientists, researchers and scholars. The FBI accused Hu of cheating by doing part-time work for Beijing University of technology while engaged in NASA funded research. In February 2020, Hu Anming was charged with three counts of wire transfer fraud and three counts of false statement.
U.S. District Judge Tom wallan said that there is no conflict between working for Beijing University of technology and engaging in NASA funded research, so no jury can convict Juan Ming on this ground.
It is reported that on June 22, foreign ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian presided over a regular press conference.

Source: Official Website of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Reporter's question: Recently, the US media reported that an FBI agent admitted that he had falsely accused Chinese professor Hu Anming of being a "Chinese spy", resulting in Hu being included in the federal no fly list, and he and his son were monitored for two years. What is China's comment on this?
Zhao Lijian: I have noticed relevant reports. U.S. media said the case was part of the U.S. Department of justice's "China Action Plan", and federal lawmakers have called for an investigation into the misconduct of U.S. intelligence agencies in the case. This false accusation case not only exposed the consistent trick of the US intelligence agencies to engage in the presumption of guilt "investigation", but also another example of the political manipulation of the United States through the intelligence agencies.
For a long time, US intelligence agencies have always resorted to unscrupulous means to achieve specific political goals, and their credibility has long been broken. Pompeo's famous saying "we lie, we cheat, we steal" is its true portrayal and black signboard. They used a tube of suspected "washing powder" as evidence to accuse Iraq of possessing "weapons of mass destruction"; They sent spies to disguise themselves as staff members of the United Nations hepatitis B vaccine project to collect DNA from Pakistan. They engage in large-scale monitoring and secret stealing, even European allies; They bribed the media and institutions through the "Robin program" and bribed, manipulated and used journalists from other countries by various means to force them to become spies.
The United States should abandon the cold war zero sum thinking and ideological prejudice, stop engaging in political manipulation, stop interfering and undermining the normal exchanges and cooperation between China and the United States in science, technology, humanities and other fields.
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