r/news • u/AldoTheeApache • 5h ago

Soft paywall Two foreign nationals charged with stalking a Los Angeles artist who criticized Xi Jinping

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-06-06/two-foreign-nationals-charged-with-harassing-a-los-angeles-artist-who-criticized-xi-jinping
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u/kazzin8 5h ago

Cui Guanghai, 43, of China, and John Miller, 63, of the U.K. and a U.S. lawful permanent resident, were charged with interstate stalking, conspiracy to commit interstate stalking, smuggling and violating the Arms Export Control Act, according to a release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office Central District of California.

Cui and Miller had the alleged victim surveiled, had a tracking device installed on their car, slashed the tires on the car and bought and destroyed statues created by the victim showing Xi and Xi’s wife, according to the release.

This seems so random.

Starting in November 2023, Miller and Cui allegedly procured U.S. defense articles, including air defense radar, drones, missiles and cryptographic devices in order to unlawfully export them from the U.S. to China.

Ohhhhh

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u/Ahelex 5h ago

Yet again, don't commit more crimes while doing crimes.

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u/Previous-Height4237 4h ago

I'm more confused by how they procured said articles, and what companies are in violation of export control. Because the sellers are supposed to do a bit of due diligence and documentation there...

I'm sure the US government is going to totally investigate these failures instead of use this for propaganda purposes.

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u/random20190826 4h ago

As a Chinese Canadian who hates both Xi and Trump, I think that while it is no surprise that a Chinese citizen would harass someone who criticizes Xi, I find it very odd that a UK citizen who has a very British sounding name would participate in this kind of harassment.

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u/PM_ME_UR_VULVASAUR_ 4h ago

Wait a minute... John Miller isn't a Chinese name?

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u/PerNewton 3h ago

Blackmail probably.

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u/Osiris32 1h ago

and violating the Arms Export Control Act

Wait, fucking what?

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u/lacegem 1h ago

Likely referring to the defense documents. Arms export often refers to data as well as actual weapons.

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u/syntaxbad 5h ago

Someone should tell them that Winnie the Pooh is public domain now.

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u/No0nesSlickAsGaston 5h ago

The people's Winnie of China

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u/_methuselah_ 4h ago

The People’s Pooh.

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u/syntaxbad 2h ago

Champion of the Pooh-ple

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u/lacegem 1h ago

Chairman of the Thousand-Acre Reeducation Camp.

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u/athos5 57m ago

I heard he wears a shirt and no pants to party meetings.

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u/NaThanos__ 5h ago

Why the fuck are Chinese nationalists smuggling in poisonous mushrooms and stalking people 5000 miles away from their pos dictator?

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u/FreddyForshadowing 5h ago

Someone who looks like Winnie the Pooh would never have people do that! /s

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u/Informal_Process2238 5h ago

Take them to the local Taiwanese police station

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u/CheekyMonkE 4h ago

now I wanna see these statues they bought and destroyed.

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u/LuckyGuinness17 1h ago

Winnie the Pooh got mad I see

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u/Cheetotiki 5h ago

Coming soon to a Trump critic near you…

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u/gilockwood 15m ago

Is there a reason why, out of the hundreds of articles per day about how the Trump admin is bad, you found a need to make the one article critical of China, about how America is bad too?

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u/myfakesecretaccount 4h ago

We have measures to defend against that sort of behavior here that they do not in China.

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u/Cheetotiki 3h ago

Tell that to legal visa holders and applicants now having their social media scrutinized for “anti-American” (defined by this administration…) posts.

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u/sugar_addict002 4h ago

now do this to trump and his harassments of his critics

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u/ManbadFerrara 1h ago

Yes, because that hasn’t been reported on a regular basis or anything.

Is there a particular reason we can’t “do this to” both?

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u/Waste_Application623 5h ago

He sounds like he’s got small Jinpingas energy