The federal espionage trial of Chinese intelligence agent Yanjun Xu, who has been charged with recruiting spies to steal technology from U.S. aviation and aerospace firms, got underway in Cincinnati on Oct. 18.
Xu is a deputy division director of China’s Ministry of State Security (MSS), the intelligence, security, and secret police agency of the communist regime. He’s the first MSS operative extradited to the United States, which makes his trial the first of its kind, the Department of Justice has said.
