The U.S. State Department on Oct. 19 added a risk label to its travel advisory for China, warning Americans living in or traveling to the Asian nation that they could be wrongfully detained by the Chinese communist regime.
“The Department of State has determined that Americans are at serious risk of wrongful detention in China,” a spokesperson told The Epoch Times in a statement.
The newly included “D” label in the State Department’s travel advisory for mainland China came as Beijing continued to hold two U.S. citizens who Washington had said were detained on wrongful charges.
U Min Zin, who co-founded a think tank focused on Burma (also known as Myanmar), was arrested on June 3 in the southwestern Chinese province of Yunnan, where he was invited by Chinese authorities to attend an academic conference. …