3 Americans Jailed in China Returning Home After Diplomatic Deal

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The detained Americans have spent years in Chinese jail.

Three Americans imprisoned in China for years are returning to the United States following a diplomatic agreement between Washington and Beijing.

The three are Mark Swidan, Kai Li, and John Leung, businessmen whom the United States said China had detained on wrongful charges.

โ€œSoon they will return and be reunited with their families for the first time in many years,โ€ a National Security Council spokesperson told The Epoch Times. With their release, the spokesperson said, โ€œall of the wrongfully detained Americans in the PRC are home.โ€

The announcement caps off months of negotiations between the Biden administration and China over the deal.

It also follows the release in September of Pastor David Lin, who was arrested in China while on a missionary trip in 2006 and later received a life sentence. A Chinese national serving a nine-month sentence for cyberstalking and threatening a pro-democracy fellow student was freed early from a Pennsylvania prison and returned to China a day after Linโ€™s release.

Swidan has spent more than a decade in Chinese jail over drug-related charges. A Chinese court sentenced him to death in 2019.

Li, a naturalized U.S. citizen, was convicted of espionage in a short secret trial and put under a 10-year sentence in Shanghai. His son Harrison Li, a Stanford student studying for a doctorate in statistics, said his father had suffered a stroke and lost a tooth during the time in captivity.

โ€œEvery day I wake up, I shudder at the thought of him crammed in that tiny cell with anywhere from seven to 11 other people,โ€ he said in a congressional hearing in September that put a spotlight on the detention of Americans in China.

Hong Kong-born American Leung, who is now 79, outwardly aligned with pro-Beijing narratives. As a prominent Chinese community leader in Texas, he headed groups that promoted Chinese influence in America and supported the regimeโ€™s stance on Taiwan and Hong Kong. Chinese state media have praised him as โ€œpatrioticโ€ and noted that during Chinese leadersโ€™ U.S. trips, Leung had met with them many times as an โ€œoutstanding Chinese representative.โ€

Byย Eva Fu

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