Sometimes, this job is so sweet...

A Chinese spy was caught in America tracking down the son of Taiwanese President William Lai. And the mainstream media missed out on how she was doing far more than just that. Welcome to China Uncensored, I'm Chris Chappell. Oh, what's that? You've noticed this? For legal reasons, I'm not allowed to call it Lego Tank Man? Stay tuned to the end, and I'll tell you how you can get one of your very own. So we like to have fun on this show. So today, let's play a game of I Spy. I spy with my little eye yet another Chinese spy. Allegedly. Her name is Jiang Heather Wang Ying. She's a 34-year-old California realtor, a naturalized American citizen born in China, and, according to the Department of Justice, an unregistered agent of the Government of the People's Republic of China. Between June and September of 2025. Now look, I get realtors in the abysmal LA housing market need a side hustle, but simping for a murderous regime? Maybe try a podcast first? Of course, acting as an unregistered agent of a foreign government is, let's see, what was it again? Oh yeah, federal crime. Which is why earlier this week, she was arrested by the FBI as she was about to depart for Shanghai from LAX. The worst part of this story so far being LAX. God, it's awful. What was Jiang doing while acting as an unregistered agent of the CCP? Allegedly. Well, spying, obviously. But more specifically, she was spying on one of the sons of Taiwanese President Lai Ching-da, Lai Ching-yu, who works in Seattle as an engineer for electronics giant Philips. Now if you're anything like me, you probably didn't know that the president of Taiwan had a son who lived in Seattle and worked for Philips. But now, thanks to Jiang, everybody knows. Which might be why Lai Ching-yu appears to have deleted his LinkedIn page. Hey, I get it. Privacy is golden. For most people, I happen to like the limelight. The good news is that Seattle is a big place. And knowing that Lai's son lives there, and even who he works for, probably isn't going to help anybody, including the CCP, get one over on President Lai. But you know what could have helped the CCP put pressure on Lai? Knowing exactly where Lai's son lived and worked, which is exactly what Jiang was working on. Allegedly. Here's how it went down. According to this affidavit, written by FBI Counterintelligence Special Agent Kevin Holt, Jiang and an accomplice identified as Individual 1 conducted a surveillance operation at the direction of officials from the People's Republic of China to photograph and gather information about Lai Ching-yu. And they did it using tradecraft, special methods used for clandestine operations such as espionage. For example, Jiang lives in Los Angeles, right? She needed to get to Seattle. The easiest way to do that is to get a direct flight from LAX to SeaTac. Easy peasy lemon squeezy. But no! Instead, Jiang, along with an unnamed individual, made last-minute travel reservations and flew from John Wayne Airport in Orange County to Las Vegas, then from Las Vegas to SeaTac. All way better airports than LAX, by the way. After that, they rented a car, apparently identified Lai, and watched him from afar in a car, taking video recordings of him at his home and noting two license plate numbers belonging to him, although probably not with a comically large camera. Then they returned the rental car the same day, less than seven hours after taking it out. Which is also apparently a tradecraft trick. Although if the goal was not to get caught, it clearly didn't work. Spying in real life is always way more clumsy than it appears in the movies. Around a week later, Jiang told the accomplice who accompanied her to airdrop her the pictures they took in Seattle. She explicitly told him to not send it via WeChat or text, likely in fear that US law enforcement would be able to extract the data. Ooh, do I sense foreshadowing. Because it seems that the accomplice was bad at following directions. He sent a video likely taken from their spying venture via WeChat. Jiang would later tell the accomplice to make sure that he deleted the footage from his phone. But that was already in the clouds, and the cloud is a form of the internet. And as we all know, the internet is forever. So how do we know all this? Well, the FBI somehow caught wind of Jiang and Individual 1's malicious activities and obtained a federal search warrant for the two individuals' iCloud accounts. Spying on the spies, love to see it. Upon accessing their iCloud accounts, the FBI learned a lot about Jiang. For one, they discovered that she attended the University of International Relations, or UIR, a Beijing institution that's closely affiliated with China's intelligence apparatus, especially the Ministry of State Security. It's basically a spy college. I think they do a better job of hiding who graduated from there. Funny enough, that's the same university where Christine Fang, the Chinese honey trap who seduced former California Congressman Eric Swalwell, graduated from. Conversations from the Chinese social media platform WeChat in Jiang's iCloud account show Jiang with a male PRC official pictured here wearing a blue t-shirt. In fact, they were classmates at UIR. They've been keeping in touch since they graduated in 2014. All clues indicate that Jiang was aware that her friend likely worked in the Ministry of State Security, Ministry of Public Security, or Ministry of Foreign Affairs. And she seemed perfectly okay with that. In fact, she dived right into coordinating with her friend, along with another UIR graduate who also worked in government. And the fact we know this shows she didn't major in covering her tracks at spy college. We don't just know that this happened because of the FBI. Taiwan's presidential office confirmed that Lai's family were targeted and said this is a classic case of transnational repression. But it's not just about transnational repression. This is a story about how the CCP performs political influence operations against the entire world. You see, according to the founder and CEO of State Armor, Jiang isn't just a spy. She's also a member of the All-American Chinese Association, or AACA. Which, according to a 2024 investigation by students for a Free Tibet and the Hong Kong Democracy Council, is a united front group that uses its connections with the Chinese government to expand pro-CCP influence operations. This isn't even a side hustle. It's a hobbyist club. She's into oppression for the love of the game at this point. This is one of many organizations that mobilized for Chinese leader Xi Jinping's San Francisco visit. Its president, Cai Edward Chenghua, has extensive ties to Chinese intel, holds roles with CCP intel and influence orgs, and cavorts around with CCP operatives. Like former Arcadia mayor Aileen Wang, who pled guilty to acting as a CCP foreign agent promoting Chinese propaganda. Should've known they were suspicious by the way they cavorted. Nobody innocent cavorts. Just saunter. Fun fact, the rental car Jiang used to spy online listed Individual 1's address in Arcadia. According to public records, Individual 1 sold a house at this address around 9-11 last year. Hmm, makes me wonder if there's some kind of web connecting all these people. Jiang's ties to the AACA is important because they show that Jiang, like Aileen Wang, is allegedly involved not just in surveillance or transnational repression, but also in narrative warfare. Specifically, in the YouTube space. That's right, warfare. I'm not an influencer, I'm a soldier. That's why I got my own 50 cent army. In a series of conversations in October 2025, Jiang talked with a PRC official and another unnamed person known as Individual 2 about bringing a big Asian YouTuber to Shanghai, reportedly with 130 million YouTube followers. Dang it, even when it comes to subverting democracy, all anyone cares about is your follower count. Whatever happened to integrity? Jiang specifically offered to introduce the social media influencer to the PRC government officials. Who would most surely use that kind of opportunity to promote pro-CCP talking points. Look, I get content creators in the abysmal YouTube algorithm market need a content hustle. But simping for a murderous regime? Maybe try a podcast first. The only YouTube channel that matches Individual 2's description is the Korean channel Kim Pro. No other Asian YouTube channel matches that description. Now just as a disclaimer, there's no proof that Kim Pro is involved with anything or anyone we're talking about here, including Jiang. I know, this kind of actual nuance and level-headedness is why I don't have 130 million followers and people want sensationalism and rage bait. But that's beside the point. These conversations show that Jiang was not just an alleged spy. She was also an alleged agent of pro-CCP narrative warfare. And Chinese narrative warfare on YouTube isn't something we can easily dismiss. It has real world consequences. People these days, especially the young, are perceiving CCP-led China in a more positive light than they should, and are downplaying the threat the CCP poses as a result. I'm afraid the CCP has been wildly successful with this type of narrative warfare. It's something that China Uncensored has spent years fighting. But lately, we're getting absolutely clobbered. Earlier this week, I published a video about how China Uncensored has been facing even more YouTube suppression. And in what I'm sure is a total coincidence, that video got terrible views. Since you probably didn't see it, here's the CliffsNotes version. China Uncensored has lost a third of our views compared to last year. Starting five months ago, views on most of our videos suddenly dropped by more than half to two thirds. And I'm still getting messages from viewers telling me you've been unsubscribed from this channel. And if that's happened to you, please let me know in the comments below. Some people still don't believe this is happening. Many of you have also now told me how you get no results when you search for China Uncensored. Our YouTube revenue this year is only half of what it was last year. If we relied on YouTube alone, China Uncensored couldn't survive. 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