{"id":1809681,"date":"2023-01-18T12:19:46","date_gmt":"2023-01-18T17:19:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1809681"},"modified":"2023-01-18T12:27:01","modified_gmt":"2023-01-18T17:27:01","slug":"enough-is-enough-families-urge-biden-admin-to-bring-home-americans-detained-in-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/enough-is-enough-families-urge-biden-admin-to-bring-home-americans-detained-in-china\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Enough is Enough&#8217;: Families Urge Biden Admin to Bring Home Americans Detained in China"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fenough-is-enough-families-urge-biden-admin-to-bring-home-americans-detained-in-china%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1809681&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<p>By Humeyra Pouk and Michael Martina<\/p>\n<p>WASHINGTON (Reuters)\u2014Katherine Swidan, whose son Mark has been imprisoned in China for over 10 years, has not seen even a photograph of him over the last decade. His voice was last heard in 2018<\/p>\n<p>The families of the other Americans held in China are also hoping that Antony Blinken (U.S. Secretary for State) can pressure the Chinese authorities to release their loved ones.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My message for Blinken is: say their names,&#8221; Katherine Swidan, a telephone interview conducted from Luling Texas, said this in an interview. &#8220;They&#8217;re American citizens. They&#8217;ve been wrongfully detained. Enough is enough.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Mark Swidan, a Texas businessman, was convicted on drug-related charges by a Chinese court despite the absence of evidence. He was given a reprieve and death sentence in 2019. A United Nations working group concluded that he was arbitrarily held in violation of international laws.<\/p>\n<p>Recent high-profile prisoner swaps by the Biden administration, including Brittney Griner, a basketball star, being released from Russia in return for a convicted Russian arms dealer have prompted calls for Washington&#8217;s assistance for U.S. citizens in China who have been held for more than a decade without any consular contact.<\/p>\n<p>The detainee issue is often lost in the larger complexity of the U.S.-China relations, which have fallen to their lowest point in decades.<\/p>\n<p>Griner was not aware of the U.S. citizens in China.<\/p>\n<p>Families of Americans detained say freedom should not be tied to difficult policy issues. Instead, they believe that humanitarian concerns should be dealt with in a separate track.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This cannot be treated as a long-term policy exercise,&#8221; Harrison Li, the son Chinese-American Kai Li and detained in China ever since 2016, said Harrison Li.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My dad, he is not a complex policy issue. It&#8217;s a very clear cut-and-dry issue of an innocent American citizen being used as a pawn by the Chinese government to extract something,&#8221; Li stated.<\/p>\n<p>In 2018, a Chinese court sentenced his father to ten years in prison for espionage. Kai Li denies all charges.<\/p>\n<p>Li claimed that talks between Washington, Beijing, and Beijing have taken place in recent months regarding the Americans held in China. However, they didn&#8217;t go anywhere. &#8220;And that&#8217;s what makes it so.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON (Reuters)\u2014Katherine Swidan, whose son Mark has been imprisoned in China for over 10 years, has not seen even a photograph of him over the last decade. The last time she heard his voice was in 2018.<br \/>\nThe post &#8216;Enough is Enough&#8217;: Families Urge Biden Admin to Bring Home Americans Detained in China appeared first on Washington Free Beacon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":1809684,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[4496,3884,4092,3620,8940,4501,8518,4910,5401,4927],"class_list":["post-1809681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon","tag-admin","tag-americans","tag-beacon","tag-biden","tag-bring","tag-china","tag-detained","tag-enough","tag-families","tag-urge"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1809681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1809681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1809681\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1809684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1809681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1809681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1809681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}