Top China Editor Says ‘Common Sense’ for U.S. to Fear Detentions
- Global Times editor Hu Xijin says some Americans at risk
- China warned U.S. that it may detain Americans, WSJ reported
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It’s “common sense” for the U.S. to worry that China might detain some Americans in retaliation for the prosecution of Chinese scholars, according to Hu Xijin, the editor-in-chief of the Communist Party-backed Global Times.
Hu was responding to a Wall Street Journal report, citing people familiar, that said officials in Beijing had warned the U.S. that American nationals in China could be detained as a result of the Justice Department’s actions against scholars affiliated with the Chinese military.