Chinese National Jailed in US Military Hardware Smuggling Case

A Chinese national has been sentenced to 30 months in a U.S. prison for smuggling or trying to smuggle high-tech U.S. military hardware to China. Kan Chen of Ningbo, in China's Zhejiang province, was convicted of illegally exporting or trying to export more than 180 items worth more than $275,000, including night vision and thermal imaging rifle scopes. "The United States will simply never know the true harm of Chen's conduct because the end users of the rifle scopes and...

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