Conviction of American sailor for spying for China

, a US Navy sailor was sentenced to 27 months in prison for accepting a $15,000 bribe from a Chinese intelligence officer in exchange for images of unclassified US government military intelligence.

The US Department of Justice announced in a statement that 26-year-old Wen Hang Thomas Zhao was found guilty of conspiracy and bribery in October last year. He was also ordered to pay a fine of $5,500.

Zhao, who worked at a naval base in California, sent plans for military exercises The US military in the Indo-Pacific region has disclosed to its Chinese supervisor operational instructions and diagrams and electrical drawings for a radar system at a US military base in Okinawa, Japan.

Washington, meanwhile, has accused Beijing of conducting a massive campaign of espionage and cyber attacks, a charge Beijing has denied.

At the same time, the issue of Chinese espionage inside the US has become a sensitive and challenging issue in relations between two countries. February last year, the flight of a Chinese spy balloon over the sky of the United States caused increasing tension between the two countries and darkened relations between them. “color:black”>.

In June of last year, a court in New York found Michael McMahon, a former police officer of this city, guilty of working as an illegal Chinese agent in the United States.

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