On October 4, 2026, at the Los Angeles International Airport, 34-year-old Chinese woman Zhang Wanying was getting ready to board a flight to Shanghai when the FBI suddenly appeared and arrested her.
To outsiders, Zhang Wanying appeared to be a successful real estate broker with no official status, no spy movie clichés like sunglasses and a code box. However, what the FBI was investigating was her involvement in a special operation in Seattle: filming the residence of the son of Taiwan’s President Lai Ching-te, documenting license plate numbers, and then passing this information to a Chinese Communist intelligence officer in China.
The man who was accompanying her on the mission had already returned to China on a one-way flight two weeks before she was arrested. Is this just a coincidence?
How did an ordinary young woman get involved in such a shocking espionage case involving the Chinese Communist Party overseas? Today, let’s delve into the backstory of Zhang Wanying’s involvement and the wake-up call this case has sounded for overseas Chinese.
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Translated and adapted from “美中大視野” Production Team.