CHINA-US: DETENTION OF US CITIZEN

Associated Press on January 17, 2018 reported Chen Xiaoping, a New York-based editor at Chinese-language Mirror Media Group, as saying that his wife has been kidnapped and held for months by Chinese security forces after he extensively interviewed New York-based exiled businessman Guo Wengui. He claimed that a new video that surfaced this week, of his wife denouncing his work, was filmed by Chinese security agencies under duress and proves that she is being held by the government in an effort to pressure him. Chen Xiaoping said that in September, shortly before one of his broadcasts, his wife Li Huaiping, who remained in China, sent him a terse message saying she was "in trouble." She was not heard from until January 14, when the anonymous YouTube video surfaced in which she said she had cut all contact with Chen Xiaoping due to "emotional issues" - as well as his "overseas work." Chen Xiaoping has spoken to the US State Department and congressional officials about the disappearance of his wife, who is a U.S. permanent resident. Chen Xiaoping became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 2012 and married Li Huaiping that same year.







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