US Woman Sentenced in Scheme to Provide Military Equipment to China

Before Wenxia Man was arrested for attempting to broker the $50 million sale of military equipment to the Chinese government, she knew the risks. In conversations with an undercover federal agent posing as a dealer, the California woman admitted she knew smuggling three jet engines and a drone out of the U.S. would be illegal, according to federal court documents. Yet she pressed on, communicating with the fake dealer and a Chinese "technology spy," Xinsheng Zhang, who was...

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