US Demands China Release ‘Wrongfully Detained’ American who was Lured to Country, then Arrested on Spying Charges

The State Department called on China to release a US citizen on Thursday who it says was wrongfully detained on espionage charges.

Min Zin, an academic who leads a think-tank focused on Myanmar, was detained by Beijing on June 3 after it extended him an invitation to attend an academic conference along the border in Yunnan.

“Secretary Rubio has formally designated US citizen Min Zin as wrongfully detained,” Dylan Johnson, the assistant secretary of state for global public affairs, wrote on X.

“We call on Beijing to release all U.S. citizens arbitrarily detained or exit banned in China,” he added. “The safety and security of U.S. citizens is the State Department’s top priority.”

Zin is a PhD candidate in political science at the University of California, Berkeley, with the American founding the Institute for Strategy and Policy (ISP) — Myanmar in 2016. (Read more from “US Demands China Release ‘Wrongfully Detained’ American who was Lured to Country, then Arrested on Spying Charges” HERE)