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Suspected Chinese spy
The central allegation is that Representative Eric Swalwell had a past relationship with Christine Fang (also called Fang Fang), a Chinese national whom U.S. intelligence identified as a suspected Min...
Available reporting says Christine Fang — widely reported as “Fang Fang” — was a Chinese national active in U.S. local politics from about 2011–2015 and left the United States in or after 2015 when U....
's core response to allegations tied to was to say he severed contact as soon as the warned him in 2015, to insist he was never accused of wrongdoing, and to frame continued attacks as politically mot...
Christine “Fang Fang” Fang is a Chinese national whom U.S. counterintelligence officials and investigative reporting say targeted up‑and‑coming U.S. politicians—mostly in California—between roughly 20...
Axios first reported in December 2020 that a Chinese national identified as Fang Fang (also Christine Fang) had cultivated political contacts, including fundraising and placing an intern for then–Dubl...
Christine “Fang Fang” Fang is the Chinese national Axios identified in 2020 as an alleged Ministry of State Security (MSS) operative who cultivated political contacts in the Bay Area from about 2011–2...
Coverage of Rep. Eric Swalwell’s contacts with Christine “Fang Fang” Fang shows she is described in multiple reports as a suspected Chinese intelligence operative who cultivated relationships with ris...
reports that Christine “Fang Fang” Fang was, according to U.S. counterintelligence officials, a Chinese national who cultivated relationships with up-and-coming local and state politicians from about ...
The May 22, 2023 letter from told that the panel “” in its two‑year inquiry into his contacts with a suspected Chinese intelligence operative, and it counseled vigilance about foreign attempts at infl...
The bipartisan House Committee on Ethics closed its two‑year investigation into Rep. Eric Swalwell in May 2023 and “will take no further action,” effectively making no finding of wrongdoing related to...
Two different threads run through available reporting: federal court documents from a 2025 money‑laundering prosecution identify a defendant named who was charged and pleaded guilty in a large Chinese...
Reporting establishes that the most detailed investigative work about was published in 2020 and documents her activities in the U.S. through about 2015, but there is no authoritative public reporting ...
Eric Swalwell has been an active national-security voice in Congress — serving on Homeland Security subcommittees, pressing cybersecurity agencies like CISA, and coauthoring public statements on the N...
Partisan outlets split predictably: conservative media amplified an scoop into allegations of personal misconduct and security failure, while mainstream outlets largely stuck to Axios’s reporting that...
Christine Fang (also reported as “Fang Fang”) is a Chinese national who U.S. reporting says cultivated ties with Bay Area politicians between about 2011–2015 and has been accused in U.S. media and som...
was last publicly reported to have left the for in mid‑2015, and that departure — and the absence of any public return — was described in news reports published in December 2020, notably the piece and...
The broke into public view in December 2020 when exposed that a national known as Christine “Fang Fang” had targeted rising local and national politicians with a mix of networking, fundraising and int...
Christine Fang, a Chinese national identified by U.S. reporting as a suspected intelligence operative, volunteered for and raised money for Eric Swalwell’s early campaigns and appears in photos with h...
Christine Fang (also reported as Fang Fang) is a Chinese national accused in several media investigations of working as a political operative who cultivated ties to U.S. local and federal politicians ...
U.S. counterintelligence attention to Christine “Fang Fang” began after a yearlong journalism probe and internal FBI inquiries that placed her in a network of political cultivation from roughly 2011–2...