As Secretary of State Antony Blinken departs Friday night on the highest-level diplomatic visit to China since 2018, Sen. Ted Cruz (R) and Rep. Michael Cloud (R) are imploring him to take all measures necessary to secure the release of a Texas businessman.
File: Mark Swidan has been detained in China since 2016.Mark Swidan, a 48-year-old Texas businessman, is on death row in China and has been behind bars since 2012 on what the U.S. says are trumped-up charges.
Blinken says he will personally raise the cases of the wrongfully detained Americans, though he did not mention Swidan by name. Swidan was first detained during the Obama administration; the Republican lawmakers argue that the U.S. government has"long shown" an unacceptable lack of urgency surrounding the case. Swidan is one of three wrongfully detained American prisoners in China caught in the middle of what may be the single most consequential and complicated geopolitical relationship for the U.S.
The years in detention during COVID lockdown were particularly difficult for Li, his son said, and even now, his communication with the outside world is extremely limited and constantly monitored by Chinese authorities. Harrison Li said that his father is being held in a very small cell with eight to 12 other prisoners and is permitted to call home just twice a month for a total of 7 1/2 minutes. In recent years, Li has grown skeptical of the U.S.
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