Two foreign nationals are accused of stalking a Los Angeles artist who is a critic of Chinese President Xi Jinping.

"Cui Guanghai, 43, of China, and John Miller, 63, of the U.K. and a U.S. lawful permanent resident, were charged with interstate stalking, conspiracy to commit interstate stalking, smuggling and violating the Arms Export Control Act," the Los Angeles Times reports, citing information from the U.S. Department of Justice.

The DOJ said in a news release that the charges of smuggling out military weaponry come from Milwaukee, but the stalking charges relate to an unnamed artist who planned to protest a 2023 appearance by Xi at an economic summit and who made "artistic statues of President Xi and his wife" to be unveiled this year, prosecutors said.

In both instances, Cui and M

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