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RELEASED. GAO ZHAN, 39, and QIN GUANGGUANG, 45, Chinese scholars with U.S. ties, convicted of spying for Taiwan; in Beijing. Gao, a researcher at American University in Washington, and Qin, once a visiting scholar at Stanford, both U.S. residents, were tried, convicted and paroled within three days--in advance of Secretary of State Colin Powell's visit to Beijing. Gao is back in the U.S., but Qin has decided to stay in China...
...Gao Yanhong strides out of his Shanghai flat and slides into a taxi. Opening his sample case, which is filled with designer shades, he grabs his wireless handheld computer and begins his morning routine: trading the mainland's volatile "B" shares online as the taxi weaves through traffic. For Gao, who sometimes slips out of sales meetings to check on a preprogrammed stock alert, the personal digital assistant (PDA) has become indispensable. "I always take my PDA with me," says Gao, whose specialty model, made by niche player GWcom, sells for $240 in a market where stripped-down devices...
Chinese authorities have detained two American-based academics this year. University researcher Gao Zhan, right, a permanent U.S. resident whose son and husband are citizens, was arrested for espionage last week after being held for more than a month. Li Shaomin, a U.S. citizen and Hong Kong professor, was taken into custody while visiting the mainland last month...
...vulnerable at a number of pressure points. They are trying to persuade Washington to spurn Taiwan's requests for an advanced antimissile radar system and are desperately trying to win this July's vote by the International Olympic Committee for China to be host to the 2008 Summer Games. Gao's lawyer, Jerome Cohen, therefore holds out hope. "When a dispute gets to that level, intelligent leaders won't want to damage themselves over a nothing case," he says. China may also be particularly sensitive now, as news broke last week of the defection in December of a high-ranking...
...amid the jumble of toys and papers strewn about their comfortable town house, Xue Donghua and Andrew are inseparable. "He used to be a very open child," the father says, "but now he is very sensitive--he won't leave me." A pile of newspapers, recording his pleas for Gao's freedom, lie on the floor. "We'll save them for her, so she can see what we have been doing," Xue says...