[2] He was arrested in 2022 suspected of espionage and convicted on August 6, 2024, for acting as a foreign agent on behalf of the Chinese Ministry of State Security (MSS).
[5] Beginning in September 1994, Wang was a visiting scholar at Columbia University for two years.
[4] He later was one of the founders of the Hu Yaobang Zhao Ziyang Memorial Foundation based in Queens, an organization that commemorated the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre and was named after two Chinese Communist Party (CCP) officials.
[5] Wang was arrested in 2022 and charged with acting as a foreign agent for the MSS.
According to U.S. officials, Wang posed as a pro-democracy, anti-CCP activist to gain information on dissidents which were then relayed to the Chinese government.