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Washington: A Chinese engineer was sentenced to eight years in a US prison Wednesday for providing Beijing with information on possible recruitment targets. Ji Chaoqun, who came to the US on a student visa in 2013 and later enlisted in the army reserves, was accused of identifying American scientists and engineers that could be recruited by the Jiangsu Province Ministry of State Security. The body is a key Chinese intelligence unit involved in numerous schemes to illegally obtain US industrial and trade secrets. Ji was arrested in September 2018 on charges that he had supplied Chinese intelligence with biographical information...
