Pema Dhargyal Ngawan, known in the United States as Baimadajie Angwang, who was arrested in 2020 charged with spying on fellow Tibetans for China, will stand trial next month. He is a New York City Police officer, a naturalised American who was granted asylum after claiming that, as a Tibetan, he had been tortured by the Chinese. It has now been established that his parents are both members of the Chinese Communist Party.