KAROUN DEMIRJIAN2026年8月21日据美国国务院称，被拘留的美国公民敏辛应中国政府邀请前往中国云南省参加学术会议后失踪。 Jade Gao/Agence France-Presse — Getty ImagesThe State Department on Thursday designated an American scholar arrested in China on spying charges in June as having been wrongfully detained.周四，美国国务院将一名于6月在中国因间谍罪名被捕的美国学者认定遭到不当拘留。The detained U.S. citizen, U Min Zin, disappeared in China’s Yunnan province after traveling there to attend an academic conference at the invitation of the Chinese government, according to the State Department.美国国务院称，这名被拘留的美国公民名为敏辛(U Min Zin)，他在应中国政府邀请前往云南省参加一场学术会议后失踪。“We call on Beijing to release all U.S. citizens arbitrarily detained or exit banned in China,” Dylan Johnson, the assistant secretary of state for global affairs, wrote on social media. “The safety and security of U.S. citizens is the State Department’s top priority.”“我们呼吁北京释放所有在中国被任意拘留或被禁止出境的美国公民，”负责全球事务的助理国务卿迪伦·约翰逊在社交媒体上写道。“美国公民的安全与保障是国务院的首要任务。”The official designation comes about a month before President Trump is expected to host President Xi Jinping of China for an official visit, following Mr. Trump’s trip to Beijing this spring.这一官方认定发布于特朗普总统预计接待中国国家主席习近平正式访美的约一个月前。此前特朗普已于今年春天访问北京。It also comes as U.S. allies in the Asia-Pacific region have grown increasingly concerned about the United States’ willingness to help defend them against China and its partners, after Mr. Trump and the Pentagon recently scaled back major military exercises with South Korea.与此同时，在特朗普和五角大楼近期缩减了与韩国的重大军事演习之后，亚太地区的美国盟友越来越担心，美国是否愿意帮助他们抵御中国及其合作伙伴的威胁。Mr. Min Zin is a political scientist and the executive director of a strategy and policy group founded in Myanmar, though it moved its headquarters after a 2021 military coup in that country, formerly known as Burma. The Chinese province where he was detained borders Myanmar.敏辛是一位政治学家，也是一家战略与政策组织的执行主任。该组织在缅甸创立，但在2021年缅甸发生军事政变后总部搬迁。他被拘留的中国省份与缅甸接壤。Mr. Min Zin, who was living in Thailand, has written on the politics of Myanmar for the opinion section of The New York Times, among other U.S. news organizations.敏辛居住在泰国，曾为《纽约时报》及其他美国新闻机构的评论版块撰写过有关缅甸政治的文章。His arrest took place less than two weeks before President Min Aung Hlaing of Myanmar made a five-day visit to China, and less than three weeks after Mr. Trump’s state visit to Beijing.在他被捕前不到两周，缅甸总统敏昂莱对中国进行了为期五天的访问。在他被捕前不到三周，特朗普对北京进行了国事访问。Since returning to the Oval Office, Mr. Trump has adopted a warmer stance toward China, in pursuit of what both Trump and Xi administration officials have labeled “constructive strategic stability” between the two economic and military powerhouses. Mr. Min Zin’s arrest has complicated that trajectory.自重返白宫椭圆形办公室以来，特朗普对中国采取了更加温和的立场，以期在两个经济和军事强国之间实现特朗普与习近平政府官员所称的“建设性战略稳定”。敏辛的被捕让这一进程变得复杂。He is currently one of two U.S. citizens in China to have been officially declared by the State Department as wrongfully detained. The other, Youlin Chen, a seismologist, was detained at a Beijing airport in 2024 while trying to return to the United States.目前，他是被美国国务院正式宣布在中国被不当拘留的两名美国公民之一。另一位是地震学家陈友麟，他于2024年试图返回美国时在北京某机场遭到拘留。Under statute, the U.S. government is obligated to treat people it declares as wrongfully detained abroad as hostages of a foreign government and to work to secure their release. The cases are referred to the special presidential envoy for hostage affairs, and congressional committees are notified and periodically updated.根据法规，美国政府有义务将被其宣布在海外遭不当拘留的人员视为外国政府的人质，并努力确保他们获释。这些案件会被移交给负责解救人质事务的总统特使，同时国会相关委员会也会接到通知，并定期获得最新情况通报。Dr. Chen’s family said this year that Mr. Trump pressed his case with Mr. Xi when the two leaders met in Beijing.陈友麟的家人今年表示，当两国领导人在北京会晤时，特朗普先生曾向习近平交涉过他的案件。The group Mr. Min Zin led, the Institute for Strategy and Policy-Myanmar, praised the State Department’s move and urged the Trump administration to make his detention “a top priority, particularly ahead of President Xi’s visit to meet with President Trump next month.”敏辛领导的组织“缅甸战略与政策研究所”赞扬了美国国务院的这一举措，并敦促特朗普政府将敏辛被拘留一事作为“首要任务，特别是在下个月习近平主席访美与特朗普总统会面之前”。“This designation also reaffirms that independent, open-source researchers and academics should be able to conduct their work without fear of intimidation or arbitrary detention,” the group said in a statement.“这一认定也再次确认，独立的、利用公开资料的研究人员和学者应当能够在无需担心受到恐吓或任意拘留的情况下开展工作，”该组织在声明中表示。Karoun Demirjian为时报报道突发新闻。翻译：纽约时报中文网点击查看本文英文版。