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The State Department said Thursday that an American citizen who traveled to China has been illegally detained by their government.
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The State Department said Thursday that an American citizen who traveled to China has been illegally detained by their government.
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The Trump administration designated Min Zin as wrongfully detained in China weeks before President Donald Trump is set to host Xi Jinping at the White House.
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U Min Zin, a scholar who studied Myanmar, is one of two U.S. citizens the department has designated as wrongfully detained in China.
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AIPROPX has consolidated 3 reports from 3 outlets into a single canonical entry on “China wrongfully detaining US citizen, State Department declares.” Every covered outlet is based in US.
The earliest report in this entry came from The New York Times — Politics (Aug 20, 2026, 14:59 UTC); the most recent came from ABC News (Aug 20, 2026, 18:49 UTC).
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