{"id":980235,"date":"2025-12-15T07:44:41","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T02:14:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=980235"},"modified":"2025-12-15T07:51:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T02:21:07","slug":"a-chinese-official-exposed-his-boss-now-in-texas-hes-hunted-by-beijing-with-help-from-us-tech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/12\/15\/a-chinese-official-exposed-his-boss-now-in-texas-hes-hunted-by-beijing-with-help-from-us-tech\/","title":{"rendered":"A Chinese official exposed his boss. Now in Texas, he&#8217;s hunted by Beijing &#8211; with help from US tech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MIDLAND, Texas: Retired Chinese official Li Chuanliang was recuperating from cancer on a Korean resort island when he got an urgent call: Don&#8217;t return to China, a friend warned. You&#8217;re now a fugitive. <\/p>\n<p>Days later, a stranger snapped a photo of Li in a cafe. Terrified South Korea would send him back, Li fled, flew to the U.S. on a tourist visa and applied for asylum. But even there &#8211; in New York, in California, deep in the Texas desert &#8211; the Chinese government continued to hunt him down with the help of surveillance technology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MIDLAND, Texas: Retired Chinese official Li Chuanliang was recuperating from cancer on a Korean resort island when he got an urgent call: Don&#8217;t return to China, a friend warned. You&#8217;re now a fugitive. Days later, a stranger snapped a photo of Li in a cafe. Terrified South Korea would send him back, Li fled, flew to the U.S. on a tourist visa and applied for asylum. But even there &#8211; in New York, in California, deep in the Texas desert &#8211; the Chinese government continued to hunt him down with the help of surveillance technology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-980235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/980235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=980235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/980235\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=980235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=980235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=980235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}