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The
logic in China's academic arrests
By CNN's Beijing bureau chief Jaime
FlorCruz
Beijing authorities formally arrested
Wu Jianmin, a China-born U.S. citizen, for allegedly
"collecting information that endangered state security."
In local parlance, that reads "espionage".
China's detention of Wu and other U.S.-linked
scholars over the past year strained relations with
Washington and unsettled academics, who regularly visit
the mainland for research and field work.
To ease tensions, China freed three
of the scholars, smoothing a visit by U.S. Secretary
of State Colin Powell to Beijing.
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