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3 Americans released in rare US-China deal as Biden administration nears end
WASHINGTON (AP) Three American citizens imprisoned for years by China have been released and are returning to the United States, the White House said Wednesday, heralding a rare diplomatic deal with Beijing in the final months of the Biden administration.
They are Mark Swidan, Kai Li and John Leung, all of whom have been designated by the US government as wrongfully detained. Swidan faced the death penalty for drug trafficking, while Li and Leung were imprisoned for espionage.
“Soon they will return and be reunited with their families for the first time in many years,” said the White House said in a statement.
The announcement comes at an uncertain time in the US-China relationship which experienced turbulence during the tenure of Democratic President Joe Biden. But with Republican Donald Trump returning to the White House in January, Chinese leader Xi Jinping has expressed concern that the new president's promises to impose significant tariffs on Chinese goods could hamper links between economic powers.
A U.S. official said the Biden administration has raised the cases of Americans detained with China in several meetings in recent years, including earlier this month when Biden spoke with Xi on the sidelines of the annual summit of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation in Peru.
Politico was the first to report the men's release, saying it was part of a prisoner exchange with the United States. The White House did not immediately confirm that any Chinese citizens had been repatriated home.
Li, a Chinese immigrant who started an export business in the United States, was arrested in September 2016 after landing in Shanghai. He was placed under surveillance, interrogated without a lawyer and accused of providing state secrets to the FBI. A U.N. working group called his 10-year prison sentence arbitrary and his family said the charges were politically motivated.
Leung was sentenced last year to life in prison for espionage. He was arrested in 2021 by the local office of China's counterintelligence agency in the southeastern city of Suzhou after China closed its borders and imposed strict restrictions on domestic travel and social controls to combat the spread of COVID-19.
Swidan had been imprisoned for 12 years on drug charges and, like Li and Leung, had been deemed by the State Department to be wrongly detained.
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