Maybe he should be over in Afghanistan instead.
Related:
"The one country with a mining contract in Afghanistan right now is China"
Huh?
"US geologist in China given 8-year sentence" by Associated Press | July 5, 2010
BEIJING — An American geologist detained and tortured by China’s state security agents over an oil industry database was jailed for eight years today.
How can I complain?
I'm from AmeriKa.
For Xue, the verdict comes more than six months since the last court hearing and two and a half years after he was detained, a protracted prosecution and pretrial detention that Chinese officials never explained.
Like AmeriKa has any standing to criticize anyone!
Born in China and trained at the University of Chicago, Xue ran afoul of the authorities for arranging the sale of a detailed commercial database on China’s oil industry to IHS Energy, the energy consulting firm he worked for that is now known as
A neo-con university, isn't that great!?
Sentenced along with Xue were three Chinese nationals convicted of being accomplices.
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Yeah, I'm smelling spy more and more with each paragraph.
The ALMOST APOLOGETIC ARTICLE from the CIA's newspaper confirms it!
"In American’s case, China protecting itself; Long sentence punishes bid to get state firm’s data" by Keith B. Richburg, Washington Post | July 6, 2010
SHANGHAI — The sentencing of an American geologist yesterday to eight years in prison for stealing state secrets underscores how the Chinese government uses the legal system to protect the business interests and competitive edge of its state-run firms.
Oh, I'm so tired of AmeriKa's MSM and its insulting hypocrisy.
Of course, if he were an Israeli doing that here we would send him home.
Xue Feng, 44, a naturalized American who works for a US energy consulting firm, was charged with trying to buy a database that reportedly showed the location and condition of oil and wells belonging to China’s government-owned National Petroleum Corp.
That was his NON-OFFICIAL COVER, folks!
The Texas man has been jailed for the past 2 1/2 years.
In other countries, such information would normally not be considered particularly sensitive.
Then why did Cheney fight to keep the Iraqi oil maps secret?
But China in recent years has shown increasing willingness to use its catchall state secrecy laws — usually invoked in matters of national security — to protect what it considers the trade secrets of state-run companies, particularly in the all-important energy sector.
I can't keep reading this hypocritical slop, folks.
In March, Stern Hu, an Australian working for the mining firm
See second story: Around Asia: In a Land Down Under
Related: Mining Chinese Corruption
Why don't you try doing some of that at home, AmeriKan MSM?
Xue's case had attracted high-level American attention, with President Obama raising the issue when he visited China last year. The case was a test of the administration’s “quiet diplomacy’’ approach of bringing up human rights matters in China....
Then he is DEFINITELY a SPY!
In an unusual public display of concern, US Ambassador Jon Huntsman attended the court session yesterday in Beijing.
Of course, the State Department is just an extended CIA station these days.
Afterward, Huntsman said in a statement that the United States was dismayed by the verdict, and he asked that Xue be given a “humanitarian release’’ and deported to the United States.
Like the Russian spies that got swapped last night?
Three Chinese associates of Xue’s were also convicted....
