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Xie Weiyaxing, wife of US scholar Mingen who is illegally detained by China, revealed that US consular officials visited Mingen for the fourth time on September 15. He was in good spirits and earnestly requested President Trump to raise this case at the summit.

On September 9, 2026, the Scholars at Risk Network released an email addressed to Xi Jinping, urging the Chinese government to immediately and unconditionally release the Burmese-American scholar Min Htin, who was detained at Kunming Airport on June 3 and later accused of suspected espionage. The email was also copied to several officials on both the Chinese and American sides. This is the second time in two weeks that the organization has spoken out for Min Htin.

The Scholars at Risk Network released an open letter co-signed by scholars, calling attention to the detention in China of Burmese-American scholar Min Hsin after he traveled to Yunnan to take part in an academic activity, and urging that efforts be made to secure his release.

The U.S. Department of State formally determined on August 20 that Burmese-American citizen Min Htin is wrongfully detained in China and called for his immediate release.

The U.S. Department of State has officially determined that Min Zin, a Burmese-American citizen and founder of the Institute for Strategy and Policy-Myanmar, is being illegally detained in Yunnan, China, and has called on the Chinese side to release him immediately.