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Updated September 16, 2025 Topic National Security Components Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) National Security Division (NSD) USAO – New York, Southern announcement Number: 25-960. announcement Man Pleads Guilty to Conspiring to Act as Illegal Agent of the Chinese Government in the United States Tuesday, September 16, 2025 Share Facebook X LinkedIn Email For Immediate Release Office of Public Affairs Yuanjun Tang, 68, a naturalized citizen of the United States and resident of Flushing, Queens, entered a guilty plea today to conspiring to act in the United States as an unregistered agent
of the People’s Republic of China (PRC).court filings state, Tang is a former PRC citizen who was imprisoned in the PRC for his activities as a dissident opposing the one-party authoritarian political system controlled by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), the PRC’s sole ruling party, including during the 1989 Tiananmen Square demonstrations. In 2002, Tang defected to Taiwan, and he was subsequently granted political asylum in the United States. Attorney Jane Yumi Chong for the Southern District of New York and Trial Attorney Sean O’Dowd of the National Security Division’s Counterintelligence and
Export Control Section are prosecuting the case. Law enforcement agents recovered specific instructions Tang received from the MSS, including via encrypted methods, as well as photographs, videos, and documents that Tang collected or created for transmission to the MSS. This included providing the MSS information about specific individuals identified by the MSS as persons of interest, as well as naming, photographing, and recording individuals participating in pro-democracy activities in the U.S. The MSS is responsible for, among other things, the PRC’s foreign intelligence, counterintelligence, espionage, and political security functions.Specifically, Tang regularly received instructions from and reported