{"id":5603,"date":"2026-10-05T05:59:39","date_gmt":"2026-10-05T10:59:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/2026\/10\/05\/fbi-arrests-woman-accused-of-spying-for-china\/"},"modified":"2026-10-05T05:59:41","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T10:59:41","slug":"fbi-arrests-woman-accused-of-spying-for-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/2026\/10\/05\/fbi-arrests-woman-accused-of-spying-for-china\/","title":{"rendered":"FBI Arrests Woman Accused of Spying for China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <div class=\"lazyload smush-lazyload-video smush-lazyload-youtube\" style=\"--smush-video-aspect-ratio: 858\/483\" data-bg-image=\"url(https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/wp-admin\/admin-ajax.php?action=smush_video_thumbnail&#038;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fembed%2FB6dDHyjafgs%3Ffeature%3Doembed&#038;video_width=858&#038;video_height=483)\" ><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Woman accused of spying for China\" width=\"858\" height=\"483\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/B6dDHyjafgs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen src=\"about:blank\"><\/iframe><span class=\"smush-play-btn\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Play video\">\r\n\t\t\t\t<span tabindex=\"0\" class=\"smush-play-btn-inner\">\r\n\t\t\t\t\t<span>Play<\/span>\r\n\t\t\t\t<\/span>\r\n\t\t\t<\/span><\/div> LOS ANGELES, CA \u2013 October 5, 2026 (STL.News) The FBI has arrested a California woman accused of secretly working for the Chinese government and conducting surveillance on the U.S.-based family of Taiwanese President Lai Ching-te, an extraordinary federal counterintelligence case that has drawn condemnation from Taiwan and renewed attention to alleged Chinese intelligence activity inside the United States. Wanying \u201cHeather\u201d Zhang, 34, of Irvine, California, was arrested Sunday at Los Angeles International Airport before her planned departure for China, according to federal authorities. She has been charged with acting as an unregistered agent of a foreign government. Federal<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stl.news\/fbi-arrests-woman-accused-of-spying-for-china\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read Original Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LOS ANGELES, CA \u2013 October 5, 2026 (STL.News) The FBI has arrested a California woman accused of secretly working for the Chinese government and conducting surveillance on the U.S.-based family of Taiwanese President Lai Ching-te, an extraordinary federal counterintelligence case&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5604,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5603"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5605,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5603\/revisions\/5605"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}