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says Mark Swidan, Kai Li and John Leung were US citizen who were wrongfully detained and are returning home.
The US on Wednesday identified the three citizens as Mark Swidan, Kai Li and John Leung, who had all been imprisoned for years in China.
The White House has said that three US citizens Washington considered wrongfully detained in China have been released and are returning home.
The US on Wednesday identified the three citizens as Mark Swidan, Kai Li and John Leung, who had all been imprisoned for years in China.
Prisoner swaps between China and the US are rare. Recent closed-door negotiations are a quiet approach in sharp contrast to prisoner exchanges with Russia, in which the US president and Vladimir Putin personally greeted returning citizens at the airport.
Earlier this month, Biden met the Chinese president, Xi Jinping, in Peru. Biden said it was “a priority to resolve the cases of US citizen who are unjustly detained or subject to exit bans in China”, according to a US readout of the conversation.
