Chinese fugitive returns from US amid crackdown

[Jonathan Fairfield]

Chinese fugitive returns from US amid crackdown

BEIJING (AP) — One of China's most wanted fugitives voluntarily returned from the U.S. on Saturday in a new victory for the government's campaign to track down corruption suspects who have fled abroad, the ruling Communist Party said.

The party's anti-graft body said that Huang Yurong had turned herself at Beijing's Capital Airport. Official photos showed Huang flanked by police officers standing before an official while a document was read and then signing a piece of paper.

Huang is accused of abusing her position as head of the highway administration in the central province of Henan to embezzle funds and take bribes. She fled abroad in August 2002, and had resided in the U.S. for the last 13 years.

Although Washington has no extradition treaty with China, it has agreed to assist in the repatriation of officials accused of corruption. In return, the U.S. hopes for Beijing's help in taking back the thousands of Chinese residing in the U.S. illegally.

Huang was ranked No. 4 on a list of China's 100 most wanted suspects issued in April and filed with Interpol. Her husband, former Henan provincial transport department chief Shi Faliang, had already been sentenced to life imprisonment in 2005 on corruption charges.

The anti-graft body, known as the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, said it had made Huang a priority and dispatched officials to build a case against her.

The commission made no mention of the amount of money involved or any admission of guilt.

It quoted Huang as saying she was happy to return home, had full confidence in the Chinese legal system and would "provide a clear explanation as to her issues."

Since taking office in 2013, Chinese President Xi Jinping has made a wide-ranging crackdown on corruption in public life a central part of his political agenda. The government is believed to use offers of lighter sentences or better treatment of relatives as inducements for suspects to return from abroad.

-- (c) Associated Press 2015-12-05

[fritzzz25]

she was happy to return home, had full confidence in the Chinese legal system and would "provide a clear explanation as to her issues."

I think she is going to have her eyes opened!!!!

[Publicus]

State Department, Department of Education, FBI and Department of Homeland Security are bargaining with CCP in Beijing for a quiet orderly exchange. US will send people CCP wants badly and CCP will get out of the US those Chinese nationals Congress and the White House want out of it. Some people call it the crooks for spies exchange program and it's been in the works for several years.

China-run Confucius Institutes under fire in U.S. schools ...

Xia Yeliang, a prominent Chinese professor and dissident who was fired from the elite Beijing University last year, has warned that academic exchanges with China carry hidden risks, such as visiting scholars who may be sent as spies.

Read more at Reutershttp://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-usa-education-idUSKCN0JJ0MC20141205#X4WzdmQ9h1JZdW1H.99

House panel investigates 'Confucius institutes' - USATODAY

The American Association of University Professors opposes Confucius institutes, writing in a June report that they "function as an arm of the Chinese state and are allowed to ignore academic freedom," and sacrifice the integrity of universities and academic staff. The association recommended that universities cease involvement with the institutes unless agreements are renegotiated to provide for transparency and control by U.S. universities over all academic matters.

There are 357 "Confucius classrooms" in secondary and elementary schools in the U.S., and 97 "Confucius institutes" at universities, including Stanford and Columbia universities.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2014/12/04/house-china-confucius-institutes/19909507/

Cancer not bombs, is the currently prevailing CCP approach and policy.

A clean cultural and education exchange policy between the US and China is desirable and mutually beneficial. However, deceit and duplicity in the name of the CCP involving spies and propagandists, to include prohibitions on discussing Taiwan or the Tiananmen massacre in 1989, is completely unwelcome. Confucious Institutes prohibit these and other discussions at their host universities in North America and Europe.

CCP is trying to slowly poison academic freedom in the United States, Canada, Europe.

CCP pays universities and schools to host Confucius Institutes, so there is a benefit. But under the Constitution of the United States only and strictly, not under the policies of the malicous CCP Dictators of Beijing.

Canada and Europe are responding in the same quiet ways as the US currently is.

This is what is occurring. The corrupt Chinese woman required by the US government to return to the CCP China to face the music there had no choice here. She gets rocked either way so she may as well save her family there.

Edited December 5, 2015 by Publicus

[oneday]

"...the U.S. hopes for Beijing's help in taking back the thousands of Chinese residing in the U.S. illegally..."

Are our officials so stupid as to only "hope" China will take back many illegal Chinese. I would hope an actual solid deal was made to take back a fixed number of illegals immediately.

[onetime]

she was happy to return home, had full confidence in the Chinese legal system and would "provide a clear explanation as to her issues."

I think she is going to have her eyes opened!!!!

I think she's going to have her eyes, extracted. Along with her liver, spleen, pancreas, lungs, kidneys...