The jailing is likely to further damage relations with Washington, which are already severely strained over issues such as trade, human rights and Taiwan.
China has sentenced a 78-year-old United States citizen to life in prison for espionage, a court said on Monday , but revealed few details about the previously unreported case.
Suzhou authorities"took compulsory measures according to the law" against Leung in April 2021, it said, without specifying when he had been taken into custody.A spokesperson for the US embassy in Beijing said they were aware of reports that a US citizen had been recently convicted and sentenced in Suzhou.
Washington and Beijing have just ended an unofficial pause in high-level contacts over the US' shooting down in February of a suspected Chinese surveillance balloon. Guo Feixiong, also known as Yang Maodong, was jailed for eight years, according to rights groups. There has been no official confirmation from China of the sentencing.
On Monday a Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson said the country's"judicial authorities act in accordance with the law, and their actions brook no interference".
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