Shujun Wang

Shujun Wang (; born 1949) is a Chinese-American historian. He was arrested in 2022 suspected of espionage and convicted on August 6, 2024, for acting as a foreign agent on behalf of the Chinese Ministry of State Security (MSS).

Career and espionage investigation Wang was born in Qingdao, Shandong, China, and became a professor at Qingdao College of Social Sciences, where he authored works on Chinese military history.

In 1994, Wang moved to New York to become a teacher after having taught at Chinese universities, and became a U.S. citizen.

Wang was arrested in 2022 and charged with acting as a foreign agent for the MSS. Four other Chinese officials were charged alongside him, and remain at large. According to U.S. officials, Wang posed as a pro-democracy, anti-CCP activist to gain information on dissidents which were then relayed to the Chinese government. Federal prosecutors described Wang as having a persona which was tailored to appeal to advocates of Hong Kong independence, Taiwanese independence, and sympathizers of Uyghur and Tibetan rights. In August 2024, Wang was convicted by a New York jury on four counts of acting and conspiring to act as an agent of a foreign government; he had pleaded not guilty.