Xu Yanjun. Photo: Handout

Suspected Chinese spy allowed to bring former US government official onto legal team

A former US national security prosecutor will be a lawyer for Xu Yanjun, a Chinese intelligence officer extradited to the United States to stand trial
Xu has been charged with attempting to steal trade secrets from GE Aviation and other American aerospace companies

Topic | Espionage

Robert Delaney in Washington

Published: 11:46pm, 25 Oct, 2018

Updated: 3:08pm, 26 Oct, 2018

Xu Yanjun. Photo: Handout

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Robert Delaney

Robert Delaney is the Post’s North America bureau chief. He spent 11 years in China as a language student and correspondent for Dow Jones Newswires and Bloomberg, and continued covering the country as a correspondent and an academic after leaving. His debut novel, The Wounded Muse, draws on actual events that played out in Beijing while he lived there.