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.
Two Storms, One Harvest
Every food crisis in living memory has been a one-shock event. The 2008 price spike was a commodity bubble. The 2020 shortages were a logistics failure. The 2022 grain scare was a war on one exporter’s ports. Each time, the system bent, adjusted, and recovered, and each time the experts assured us afterward that global markets are simply too big and too diversified to fail.
What nobody in Washington seems eager to discuss is that 2026 is shaping up to be something the modern food system has never actually faced. Two independent shocks, one climatic and one geopolitical, are converging on the same harvest cycle at the same time. Not sequentially. Simultaneously.
Start with the weather. The Pacific Ocean is currently building toward what forecasters now openly call a record event. NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center puts the odds of at least a strong El Niño near 88 percent, with roughly two in three odds it reaches “very strong” status, the tier reserved for perhaps three or four events in the entire satellite era. Every major global model now projects a median peak in Super El Niño territory, and most of them project it exceeding the 2015-16 event, which until now held the modern record. Sea surface anomalies were already brushing the super threshold in mid-July, months before these events normally peak. The atmosphere has already shifted into El Niño mode, and the event is forecast to crest in late fall and early winter.
This is not about “climate change.” It’s about the standard cycles of weather, and the cycle we’re currently in is one that has likely devastated societies in the past. We’re better prepared as a society today, but not all Americans are equally prepared.
Serious households have started doing the quiet math on their own. Grocery bills tell part of the story, and the forecast maps tell the rest, which is why long-term food storage has moved from fringe hobby to mainstream line item in the family budget, with established suppliers like Heaven’s Harvest seeing demand from people who five years ago would have rolled their eyes at the idea. That instinct is not paranoia. It is pattern recognition, and the pattern is worth walking through carefully.
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The Fertilizer Clock Is Already Running
While the Pacific warms, the second shock has been unfolding in the Strait of Hormuz. The conflict with Iran turned the world’s most important energy chokepoint into a contested waterway, and the consequences reach far beyond the gas pump. Roughly a third of global fertilizer trade moves through Hormuz, and the disruption sent urea prices up 86 percent year over year by March, with a 53 percent jump in a single month.
The World Bank projects energy prices rising about 24 percent in 2026 and fertilizer about 31 percent. By its own accounting, fertilizer prices ran 35 percent higher in the first five months of this year than the same period last year.
Here is the mechanism the nightly news will not explain. Fertilizer is not a grocery item. It is a time-delayed input. The nitrogen a farmer in Iowa or Punjab could not afford to apply this spring does not show up as a problem this spring. It shows up as a thinner harvest six to twelve months later.
The World Bank’s own food security brief concedes that the effects of reduced applications earlier this season “are likely to become visible only later in harvest outcomes.” Translate that from institutional language into plain English and it means this. The damage is already done, it is already in the ground, and we are simply waiting for it to arrive on the shelf.
Now check the calendar. Six to twelve months from the spring planting season lands us squarely in late 2026 and early 2027. Which is precisely when the strongest El Niño in the instrumental record is forecast to peak, bringing its signature droughts to Southeast Asia, Australia, southern Africa, northern Brazil, and South Asia, the very regions that grow the world’s rice, sugar, and oilseeds.
The World Bank warns openly that a strong El Niño “could disrupt multiple crop belts simultaneously” on top of the conflict-driven input costs. Their baseline projection assumes the Middle East disruptions ease by autumn. What in the last two years of Middle East history suggests that assumption is safe?
The System Has No Slack Left
The comfortable answer is that global markets always adjust. But adjustment requires slack, and the slack is gone. Global cereal production is expected to decline from last year’s records even before El Niño does its work. The UN World Food Programme, hardly a den of right-wing preppers, is calling this the most significant disruption to its supply chains since Covid and the invasion of Ukraine, and its supply chain director put the stakes bluntly.
Today’s supply chain challenges are tomorrow’s hunger crisis.
There is also a political dimension that markets cannot price. When food gets scarce, governments do not behave like economists. They behave like politicians. Export bans, hoarding mandates, and panic buying at the national level turned the modest rice shortfall of 2008 into a global crisis, and analysts are already warning that import-dependent nations are the first dominoes.
The 2015-16 Super El Niño, a far weaker event than what is now forecast, threw tens of millions into food stress across Africa and Asia. This one is projected to be stronger, and it arrives with fertilizer already rationed by price and shipping lanes already contested by missiles.
What Joseph Knew
Scripture does not treat preparation for lean years as faithlessness. It treats it as wisdom delivered in advance to those willing to act on it.
Behold, there come seven years of great plenty throughout all the land of Egypt: And there shall arise after them seven years of famine; and all the plenty shall be forgotten in the land of Egypt.
Joseph did not respond to that warning with a hashtag or a committee. He stored grain during the years of abundance, and when the famine came, Egypt stood while its neighbors begged. The lesson is not that famine is certain. It is that the time to prepare is precisely when preparation still looks optional.
Nobody who filled a pantry in a year of plenty has ever regretted it, and nobody standing in an empty aisle has ever been glad he waited for certainty.
None of this calls for panic, and panic is the enemy of sound judgment anyway. It calls for the same unglamorous prudence our grandparents considered ordinary. Keep some cash margin, know your local growers, and put real food in deep storage while it is cheap and available, because the entire arc of this story is that cheap and available is a closing window.
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