Arrest of woman at Mar-a-Lago raises questions about Chinese espionage by JennaMC_Laugh
WASHINGTON — At next week’s bond hearing for a Chinese woman who was arrested after gaining entry to Mar-a-Lago, President Trump’s private club in Florida, a central question may be whether there’s a risk that Yujing Zhang represents a security threat, or simply a befuddled private citizen looking to network.
“That is very common and is an accepted practice,” Robert Adler, Zhang’s public defender, wrote in an email to Yahoo News. “And her B1/B2 visa could have only been obtained after an interview with our State Department.
The FBI is reportedly bulking up a counterintelligence investigation that now includes Zhang, according to the Miami Herald.Experts on Chinese espionage and foreign affairs were hesitant to speak specifically about Zhang’s case because of the limited information available. However, the case may be an example of how “squishy” — or ambiguous — Chinese intelligence operations are by design, often utilizing everyone from amateurs to experts, one China expert told Yahoo News.
A flawed metaphor emerged in the 1980s about how China employs a large number of amateurs to collect small “grains of sand” or bits of information in order to gather intelligence, according to Mattis. But in fact, he argues that “multiple professional systems” operate alongside more amateurish efforts.
Todd Madison, a former U.S. Secret Service special agent who was a part of former President Bill Clinton’s protective division, wrote in an email to Yahoo News that “security professionals charged with protecting presidents, and public officials in general, must strike a delicate balance of maintaining their accessibility to the public, while also ensuring they remain out of harm’s way.”
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