Camp Grayling, Michigan, is the largest National Guard training base in the United States. It encompasses 148,000 acres of training grounds and is used for combined arms field training exercises. If you were an intelligence agent for a nation unfriendly to the United States, it’s a place that you would want to observe, the better to observe United States forces in the field. In August 2023, five University of Michigan students – all of them Chinese nationals – were confronted by a non-commissioned officer (NCO) in the woods near the base, and at the time, were questioned and let go.
Now, they are being charged with misleading investigators, and suspiciously deleting data from their phones.
U.S. authorities charged five Chinese nationals with lying and trying to cover their tracks, more than a year after they were confronted in the dark near a remote Michigan military site where…
