Trial begins for US citizen accused of acting as Chinese agent

New York — A former university professor in China went on trial on Monday in Brooklyn on charges he acted as a Chinese agent by monitoring U.S.-based activists opposed to Beijing's Communist government at the direction of intelligence officials in China. Federal prosecutors said Shujun Wang, a naturalized U.S. citizen, exploited his leadership role in New York communities supporting democracy in China to collect information on dissidents, and shared it with four officials in China's Ministry of State Security (MSS), an intelligence service.