The Biden administration has come to an agreement with the Chinese government to secure the release of three Americans whom the State Department had determined to be “wrongfully detained.”

The three Americans who were released were Mark Swidan, who had been held in China on disputed drug charges for more than 10 years; Kai Li, who has been held since 2016 on disputed espionage charges; and John Leung, who was detained in 2021 and sentenced in 2023 to life in prison on spying charges.

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