The honeypot went home to China. The nonprofit that introduced her to American politicians never packed up. It is still parking interns inside legislative offices from Sacramento to Albany, and the men who run it still get their pictures taken with Democrats who sit on committees that are supposed to be watching Beijing.
That is the finding in an Isabel Vincent exclusive for the New York Post. Fang “Christine” Fang, the suspected Ministry of State Security operative who seduced then-Congressman Eric Swalwell, rose to president of a campus chapter of the Asian Pacific American Public Affairs Association. She used that title the way a locksmith uses a key.
Interns into offices. Donors into campaigns. A rising Bay Area Democrat into her bed.
Swalwell later told the FBI she was his main point of contact with APAPA. He met her in 2012, before he took the oath. He admitted to agents that he had “physical relations” with her on a handful of occasions, including one night he barely remembered because he had taken Ambien before she showed up at the door. Declassified bureau files released in August say he treated anyone she put forward for an internship as coming through APAPA.
The same files say she worked the same circuit on two Midwest politicians. One Ohio mayor had a sexual liaison with her inside a car the FBI had wired. His name has never been released. Hers has. She still works at a tech firm in China and tells state media that the FBI and CIA tried to buy her with citizenship and a million dollars.
APAPA’s current national leadership now says it has “no information” she ever held an authorized role. That is a remarkable case of institutional amnesia. Swalwell did not invent the introduction. The FBI did not invent the intern referrals. And the group’s own mission has always been political placement.
The chairman with two passports of influence
Henry Yin, 79, is APAPA’s national chair. Watchdogs have spent years mapping his associations with United Front organizations, the Communist Party’s overseas influence arms. Between 2013 and 2023 he traveled to China as “head of the Silicon Valley Entrepreneurs Delegation,” giving speeches on the “perspectives as overseas Chinese in the US,” according to party-controlled Sichuan papers.
The Sichuan Overseas Chinese Affairs Office has called him an overseas Chinese leader in California. His family has been credited with drawing American investment into Renshou County.
In 2010 Arnold Schwarzenegger put him on California’s Commission for Economic Development. Jerry Brown renewed it. Yin told China Daily he would not hesitate if Washington ever wanted to use his “social networking resources in both the US and China.”
He has also claimed a formal perch next to Rep. Ro Khanna. Yin’s LinkedIn listed him as a senior adviser since 2019. That same year Khanna posted a photo and wrote that Henry would serve as his senior adviser on foreign trade and economic development. Confronted by the Post last week, Khanna’s spokeswoman said Yin is a respected Fremont neighbor who “has never held a formal role with the Congressman.”
Khanna is the ranking Democrat on the House Select Committee on Strategic Competition with the Chinese Communist Party. The committee exists to investigate the very influence networks Yin has spent a career working. Jackie Deal, a senior fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute, did not mince the diagnosis.
APAPA is a locus of pro-CCP activity. Its mission is explicitly political.
Michael Lucci of State Armor, which tracks CCP pressure at the state level, warned officials to scrutinize any APAPA effort that lines up with Beijing’s objectives, including the campaign to stall American data-center construction. APAPA says it has taken no position on data centers and that personal views of people around the group do not speak for the organization. That is the standard shrug. The internships continue.
Not a California relic
In Brooklyn, Assemblyman William Colton took an APAPA “Community Champion Award” at the 2023 gala. His longtime aide Susan Zhuang volunteered with the group before winning a City Council seat. She was later arrested for biting a police officer at a homeless protest.
The charges vanished after a restorative-justice program. Democratic State Sen. Samra Brouk and Assemblyman Ron Kim have hosted APAPA interns, according to the group’s own site.
In California, APAPA’s national chief operating officer, Marilyn Cachola Lucey, is a former policy director for Assemblywoman Rebecca Bauer-Kahan. Board member Andrew Truman Kim worked as an aide to Rep. John Garamendi. None of those staffers has been accused of espionage. That is not the point. The point is the door. Fang walked through it.
The door is still open. APAPA’s 2025 Shining Stars reception honored 27 student interns placed in California legislative offices in a single semester. Treasurer Fiona Ma bragged that she has hosted the pipeline for more than two decades.
Fang came to the United States around 2011 on a student visa after graduating from Beijing’s University of International Relations, a school long tied to the Ministry of State Security. The FBI tried to flip her as a double agent under the code name Rusty Thumbs. The recruitment collapsed when agents concluded she was running illegal conduit donations into Swalwell’s campaign and trading access and internships for checks.
Just the News and The Federalist documented the bureau’s own language. She fled in 2015. Justice declined to prosecute a woman who was already gone. Nancy Pelosi kept Swalwell on the Intelligence Committee anyway. He stayed there for years, lecturing the country about Russian ghosts while Beijing’s girl had already been through his apartment.
The words of his mouth were smoother than butter, but war was in his heart. His words were softer than oil, yet were they drawn swords.
That is how a honey trap works. Flattery first. Access second. Then the intern with a badge and a laptop and no one asking who sent her. Scripture does not tell the church to pretend darkness is a civic-engagement nonprofit. It tells the church to reprove it.
American offices that still accept this pipeline after the FBI file, after the Ambien night, after the wired car in Ohio, are not confused. They are comfortable. Comfort is how a hostile power keeps a chair in the room long after the spy has caught her flight home.
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