BEIJING — U.S. officials reacted with dismay and puzzlement Monday to the eight-year prison sentence imposed on an American geologist because he sold a database on China's oil industry to a Colorado consulting company.
editor@mercurynews.com (By Michael Wines , San Jose Mercury News
Mon, 07/05/2010 - 6:43pm
BEIJING — U.S. officials reacted with dismay and puzzlement Monday to the eight-year prison sentence imposed on an American geologist because he sold a database on China's oil industry to a Colorado consulting company.