US journalist jailed for 2 years for working as a Chinese agent

An American journalist who lived in Beijing, worked for Chinese state media and pleaded guilty to helping Beijing collect US intelligence was sentenced on Tuesday to two years in federal prison.Thomas Weir Pauken II, 51, was also sentenced to three years of supervised release and barred from overseas travel during that period, according to the US Justice Department. He also used the alias Tom McGregor. His father, Thomas Pauken, chaired the Texas Republican Party in the 1990s and later ran for governor.Pauken has been in custody since his arrest in February, and he admitted in June to acting as an agent of China in the US without notifying the attorney general, as required under federal law.