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By Katie Benner @ NYTimes.com, Oct. 10
WASHINGTON — A Chinese intelligence official was arrested in Belgium and brought to the United States to face espionage charges, Justice Department officials said on Wednesday, in a dramatic escalation of the Trump administration’s effort to crack down on Chinese spying.
The extradition on Tuesday of the officer, Yanjun Xu, a deputy division director in a regional office of China’s Ministry of State Security, was the first time that a Chinese intelligence official was brought to the United States to be prosecuted. He tried to steal trade secrets from GE Aviation, according to law enforcement officials.
“This unprecedented extradition of a Chinese intelligence officer exposes the Chinese government’s direct oversight of economic espionage against the United States,” William Priestap, the F.B.I.’s assistant director for counterintelligence, said in a statement [....]
The administration also outlined on Wednesday new restrictions on foreign investment that are aimed at keeping China from gaining access to American companies. American officials will be able to block more foreign transactions believed to be a threat to national security, including in technology, telecommunications and other sensitive industries.
Mr. Xu was arrested in Belgium on April 1 after being lured there in the hopes of obtaining information about GE Aviation [....]
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