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Created: 2025-07-20 23:29:04 UTC

🚨🚨🚨 a Chinese American man who works for the Commerce Department and traveled to China several months ago is being prevented from leaving the country after he failed to disclose on his visa application that he worked for the US government.

The American, an employee of the Patent and Trademark Office, went to China to visit family and now has been caught up in China’s controversial practice of blocking Chinese and foreign nationals from leaving China — in what is often seen by Washington as a tool of coercion against people and businesses.

What makes this case more significant is that the traveler is a US government employee, although he was apparently not traveling on government business. Such cases are highly unusual.

Rep. John Moolenaar, chairman of the House Select Committee on the CCP: “I am gravely concerned by what appears to be another case of CCP hostage diplomacy. This is a tactic, not a coincidence — and it’s unacceptable. The freedom of all Americans must remain a top priority and this is not the only American being unjustly detained by China.”

China does not recognize dual citizenship, which means that Chinese Americans are considered Chinese nationals, regardless of whether they have a US passport.

“That’s a real challenge with the PRC. Chinese Americans are under additional pressure. Often they have family members in China. That’s leverage that the authorities have not been afraid to use against them.”

The Chinese government could consider someone a “traitor” even if they were born in the US.

There’s a previously undisclosed case of a 7-year-old American boy and his mother who have been under an exit ban since August, when the boy’s father, New York artist Gao Zhen, was detained over artwork that Chinese authorities alleged “defamed the honor” of former Chinese leaders.

China may reject a visa application for any visitor without explanation. “But to hold captive inside China people for issues of a visa application infraction or unrelated business disputes is going to set back efforts to ease travel between the two countries.”



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Byron_Wan Avatar Byron Wan @Byron_Wan on x 41.1K followers Created: 2025-07-20 23:29:04 UTC

🚨🚨🚨 a Chinese American man who works for the Commerce Department and traveled to China several months ago is being prevented from leaving the country after he failed to disclose on his visa application that he worked for the US government.

The American, an employee of the Patent and Trademark Office, went to China to visit family and now has been caught up in China’s controversial practice of blocking Chinese and foreign nationals from leaving China — in what is often seen by Washington as a tool of coercion against people and businesses.

What makes this case more significant is that the traveler is a US government employee, although he was apparently not traveling on government business. Such cases are highly unusual.

Rep. John Moolenaar, chairman of the House Select Committee on the CCP: “I am gravely concerned by what appears to be another case of CCP hostage diplomacy. This is a tactic, not a coincidence — and it’s unacceptable. The freedom of all Americans must remain a top priority and this is not the only American being unjustly detained by China.”

China does not recognize dual citizenship, which means that Chinese Americans are considered Chinese nationals, regardless of whether they have a US passport.

“That’s a real challenge with the PRC. Chinese Americans are under additional pressure. Often they have family members in China. That’s leverage that the authorities have not been afraid to use against them.”

The Chinese government could consider someone a “traitor” even if they were born in the US.  There’s a previously undisclosed case of a 7-year-old American boy and his mother who have been under an exit ban since August, when the boy’s father, New York artist Gao Zhen, was detained over artwork that Chinese authorities alleged “defamed the honor” of former Chinese leaders.

China may reject a visa application for any visitor without explanation. “But to hold captive inside China people for issues of a visa application infraction or unrelated business disputes is going to set back efforts to ease travel between the two countries.”

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