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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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Available reporting describes Christine “Fang Fang” (also called Christine Fang) as a Chinese national who cultivated contacts with U.S. local and federal politicians between about 2011–2015 and who l...
Reporting shows Rep. Eric Swalwell was named in a 2020 Axios investigation linking a woman known as Christine “Fang Fang” to Chinese intelligence activity; he received a defensive FBI briefing in 2015...
The FBI alerted Rep. Eric Swalwell years earlier that he had been targeted by a suspected Chinese intelligence operative and gave him a defensive briefing, after which Swalwell says he cut ties and co...
The bipartisan House Committee on Ethics closed its two‑year inquiry into Rep. Eric Swalwell’s interactions with a suspected Chinese operative and “will take no further action,” according to a letter ...