Last night we posted Tucker Carlson exposing how the Chinese have people in influential places in America and have used those people to influence past administrations. Well today, Axios has a big report out today on how a Chinese spy actually targeted Democrats like Eric Swalwell and Tulsi Gabbard, among others.
The suspected operative, a Chinese national named Christine Fang, enrolled as a student at Cal State East Bay in 2011.
Fang’s friends and acquaintances said she was in her late 20s or early 30s, though she looked younger and blended in well with the undergraduate population. pic.twitter.com/cDhp8s8CTa
— B. Allen-Ebrahimian (@BethanyAllenEbr) December 8, 2020
Christine Fang was "everywhere," to quote several people who knew her. She appears in photos with Eric Swalwell, Ro Khanna, Judy Chu, and Mike Honda, and numerous mayors, state assembly members, town council members, staffers, and other prominent politicos. pic.twitter.com/ihSw5Emrwf
— B. Allen-Ebrahimian (@BethanyAllenEbr) December 8, 2020
Here’s a summary of their long report from Business Insider:
Fang was in her late 20s or early 30s when she came to the US in 2011 and enrolled as a student at California State University East Bay, according to friends and acquaintances.
Fang used her position as president of school groups at CSU East Bay to start cultivating relationships with politicians.
Fang soon became a mainstay at Bay Area political events, volunteered on campaigns, and helped fundraise for Democratic politicians like now-Reps. Eric Swalwell and Tulsi Gabbard.
Fang started getting close to Swalwell when he was a councilmember for Dublin City, California. She developed close ties to his office, helped bring in big donors, and even placed an intern in his Washington, DC office.
Fang expanded her network nationally by attending a 2014 conference for mayors in Washington, DC, according to multiple sources who spoke to Axios.
A US intelligence official and one former elected official said that Fang engaged in sexual or romantic relationships with at least two mayors of Midwestern cities, though Axios was not able to identify either mayor.
One of the mayors was described as an older Midwestern mayor “from an obscure city” who referred to Fang as his “girlfriend” in conversation, according to former Cupertino Mayor Gilbert Wong.
A sexual encounter involving Fang and an Ohio mayor was also caught on FBI surveillance, according to one US official.
Fang came on the radar of US counterintelligence officials as they were investigating another suspected Chinese spy, a current US counterintelligence official said.
Fang was put under FBI surveillance, and in 2015, senior US intelligence officials started tipping off the politicians that Fang was getting close to, one official said.
In mid-2015, Fang abruptly left the country and returned to China, which came as a surprise to many of her Bay Area political contacts. She has not been back since.
US officials do not believe Fang received or passed on classified information. But one current senior US intelligence official said the case was big nonetheless “because there were some really, really sensitive people that were caught up” in her “intelligence network.”
Swalwell has been on the House Intel committee since 2015. Just imagine, had the FBI not began investigating Fang and scared her away, what secrets she would have had access to over the years, especially through her informant in his office.
And this is the same guy who spent many occasion accusing Trump of colluding the Russians. What a hypocrite.
. @ericswalwell is a total hypocrite and should resign in disgrace. https://t.co/w85P2nJvnz
— Richard Grenell (@RichardGrenell) December 8, 2020
This story makes it clear that the Chinese spy, who was also a fundraiser for @RepSwalwell, had “sexual relationships” with elected officials. Swalwell, who is married and therefore a blackmail risk, must answer whether he was one of the officials that slept with the Chinese spy. https://t.co/DtvfDVU6Vt
— Arthur Schwartz (@ArthurSchwartz) December 8, 2020