Chinese Espionage Prosecutions in the United States

A timeline tracing US cases in which individuals were accused of spying for China, from early Cold War-era cases through the post-2010 surge in indictments, showing how arrests, charges, trials, sentencing, and diplomatic retaliation unfolded over time. The reported 2026 arrest of a California woman bound for China, accused of targeting Taiwan's president's son, would serve as the latest datapoint in a longer arc about US-China intelligence competition and Taiwan's security. This timeline was generated automatically by TimeStrands AI from Wikipedia research. Facts are sourced; framing may be imperfect.