Tuesday, July 28, 2020

UC Davis Harbored Suspected Communist Spy Juan Tang

On Friday U.S. authorities arrested Juan Tang, who had sought refuge in the Chinese consulate in San Francisco after being charged with visa fraud last month.

Tang had been a visiting cancer researcher at UC Davis, the Davis Enterprise reports, funded by the Chinese Scholarship Council, affiliated with the China's Ministry of Education and Xijing Hospital in China.

According to the report, the FBI found a 2016 photo of Tang wearing a People's Liberation Army uniform and an application for government benefits in which Tang revealed she was member of the Chinese Communist Party.

After questioning at her Davis apartment, Tang fled to the Chinese consulate in San Francisco.

For some 20 years Sen. Dianne Feinstein, San Francisco Democrat, employed a Chinese spy on her staff.

The spy worked as a driver but also served in Feinstein's San Francisco office, as a liaison to the Asian American community, and even attended Chinese consulate functions for the senator.

As the Los Angeles Times reported last week, a researcher at UC San Francisco was secretly a Chinese military official with "a designated point of contact" at the Chinese consulate.

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