Tuesday, February 12, 2008

What Effect Does the Capture of Chinese Spies on American Soil Have on U.S./China Relations?


This blog, http://www.djacobsonlaw.com, has an interesting post about four individuals who were arrested by the Justice Department for spying and giving classified national defense information to China.  Two of the men are businessmen from New Orleans and the other is from Arlington, VA.  One other individual from California that had worked for Boeing and NASA was arrested.  Obviously, this is bad for those individuals--you don't get arrested for spying unless there is a large amount of evidence.  Apparently these guys have been passing confidential info to the PRC for about two years.

My question is: What effect does this have on U.S. and China relations?  Will the U.S. government do anything formally to China?  Will they just gripe, complain and make a media circus but then move on because we all know that spying is inevitable?  I was just curious if anyone knew.  

Andy Thomas

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