BEIJING — China sentenced a 78-year-old United States citizen to life in jail Monday on spying costs.

John Shing-Wan Leung, who holds everlasting residency in Hong Kong, was detained April 15, 2021, by the counterintelligence company within the southeastern metropolis of Suzhou. The metropolis’s intermediate court docket introduced Leung’s sentence in a quick assertion on its social media website however gave no particulars of the fees.

Such investigations and trials are held behind closed doorways and little or no info is made public.

Relations between Washington and Beijing have hit a historic low amid disputes over commerce, expertise, human rights and China’s more and more aggressive method towards its territorial claims.

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