Yuanjun Tang, 67, of Flushing, Queens, New York City, New York, United States is a naturalized citizen of the U.S. and a former citizen of China. He was imprisoned in China after opposing the one-party authoritarian political system controlled by the country’s sole ruling party, the Chinese Communist Party.
Who is Yuanjun Tang?
In 2002, Tang defected to Taiwan. Since he was granted political asylum in the U.S., he has lived in New York City where he lead a nonprofit promoting democracy in China.
Between 2018 and June 2023, Tang acted as China’s agent in the U.S. and completed tasks at the direction of China’s ministry of state security. He allegedly acted and conspired to act in the U.S. as an unregistered agent of China and made materially false statements to the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
Tang was charged with conspiring to act as an agent of a foreign government without notifying the attorney general, acting as an agent of a foreign government without notifying the attorney general and making false statements. On August 21, 2024, he was arrested in Flushing and presented before U.S. Magistrate Judge Ona T. Wang.
Who is Ona T. Wang?
Wang is of Chinese decent. She is the first Asian American Magistrate Judge in the U.S. District Court Southern District of New York.
From 1984 to 1988, Wang pursued a bachelor’s degree in biology at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. She earned her Ph.D. in zoology from Duke University in 1995 and her Juris Doctor from the New York University School of Law in New York City in 1998.
From 2012 to 2016, Wang was the secretary of the New York City Bar Association. In March 2018, she became a U.S. Magistrate Judge at the U.S. District Court of the Southern District of New York.
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