Source: Time
Chinese authorities have charged an American woman with espionage, after holding her since March last year.
Sandy Phan-Gillis, 56, denies committing any crimes, reports Reuters, citing a letter the Texas businesswoman gave to a U.S. consular official in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou. Her husband, Jeff Gillis, described the charges as “absolutely false.”
The news comes just days before U.S. President Barack Obama arrives in China for the G-20 summit in Hangzhou, and at a time when Sino-American relations have been tense over Beijing’s strident territorial claims in the South China Sea.
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