Chinese-born academic convicted in U.S. of acting as covert Chinese agent

A prominent Chinese-born academic and author who feigned being a pro-democracy activist was convicted on Tuesday of acting as a covert Chinese agent, the Justice Department said.

After a one-week trial, a jury convicted Shujun Wang, 75, of four counts of acting and conspiring to act as an agent of a foreign government.

He will be sentenced in January and faces up to 25 years in prison.

Wang, a naturalized US citizen, co-founded a pro-democracy group in Queens, the Hu Yaobang and Zhao Ziyang Memorial Foundation...