Note:
(a) Compare
Halya Coynash, A Cloak and Dagger Farce in Ukraine; Absurd espionage charges against an academic and two young men would be funny if the stakes weren't so high. TOL, Sept 19, 2013 http://www.tol.org/client/articl ... humakov-spying.html
(the accused: Volodymyr CHUMAKOV)
Click "ABOUT TOL" at the top right (at the end of a horizontal bar) and one will learn TOL is acronym for Transitions OnLine (internet) magazine, established in 1999 and based in Prague, Czech Republic.
(b) The accused activities are not a crime in US but is, I believe, in China.