Unearthed photo of Swalwell meeting with top CCP official raises alarm bells: 'Very disturbing'
Are they actually going to vote on something real?
FIRST ON FOX: A previously unreported 2013 Facebook post by China's San Francisco consulate shows then-freshman Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-Calif., touting "great potential" for U.S.-China cooperation during a meeting with a senior CCP diplomat, which came during the same time period when Swalwell was allegedly targeted by Chinese espionage efforts.
The 2013 photo, which was unearthed by Fox News Digital and "liked" by Christine "Fang Fang" Fang, a Chinese national who was suspected of being a Chinese Ministry of State Security (MSS) operative and who was reportedly working closely with Swalwell's campaign helping with fundraising, showed Swalwell posing with Song Ru'an.
At the time of the photo, Ru'an was the Deputy Consul General at China's Bay Area consulate in San Francisco. He would subsequently be tapped to serve as the Deputy Commissioner of the Office of the Commissioner of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of China in Hong Kong until at least 2021.
"The United States and China have a lot in common and the two economies are highly complementary. There are great potential for the two countries to cooperate," Swalwell said at the meeting according to the picture's caption posted by the Chinese consulate. "I will work actively to promote bilateral economic and trade cooperation, and I'm looking forward to visiting China in the near future."
SWALWELL PROMISES IF ELECTED GOVERNOR, FORMER ICE AGENTS WOULD BE 'UN-HIRABLE' IN CALIFORNIA
The unearthed photo comes a couple of weeks after Fox News Digital reported on a California-based law partner for a Beijing law firm donating thousands of dollars to Swalwell's gubernatorial campaign. Like Keliang "Clay" Zhu, Ru'an has a history of supporting interests contrary to American priorities. Ru'an served as one of China's leading officials in Hong Kong between 2015 and 2021, and was a vocal critic of a 2019 U.S. Human Rights and Democracy Act aimed at protecting Hong Kongers from China's authoritarian crackdown on its dissidents that only a single Republican member of Congress voted against.
Ru'an blasted the bill at the time as the "the epitome of hegemony" and warned it went against American interests, according to the South China Morning Post. Ru'an also reportedly slammed the moves as a "negative and disgraceful role" the U.S. was playing in China's domestic issues.
Ru'an emerged as a central figure in Hong Kong during China's national security crackdown there that began boiling over in 2020, 2021 and subsequent years. According to the Hong Kong Journalists Association, Ru'an told …
Are they actually going to vote on something real?
FIRST ON FOX: A previously unreported 2013 Facebook post by China's San Francisco consulate shows then-freshman Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-Calif., touting "great potential" for U.S.-China cooperation during a meeting with a senior CCP diplomat, which came during the same time period when Swalwell was allegedly targeted by Chinese espionage efforts.
The 2013 photo, which was unearthed by Fox News Digital and "liked" by Christine "Fang Fang" Fang, a Chinese national who was suspected of being a Chinese Ministry of State Security (MSS) operative and who was reportedly working closely with Swalwell's campaign helping with fundraising, showed Swalwell posing with Song Ru'an.
At the time of the photo, Ru'an was the Deputy Consul General at China's Bay Area consulate in San Francisco. He would subsequently be tapped to serve as the Deputy Commissioner of the Office of the Commissioner of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of China in Hong Kong until at least 2021.
"The United States and China have a lot in common and the two economies are highly complementary. There are great potential for the two countries to cooperate," Swalwell said at the meeting according to the picture's caption posted by the Chinese consulate. "I will work actively to promote bilateral economic and trade cooperation, and I'm looking forward to visiting China in the near future."
SWALWELL PROMISES IF ELECTED GOVERNOR, FORMER ICE AGENTS WOULD BE 'UN-HIRABLE' IN CALIFORNIA
The unearthed photo comes a couple of weeks after Fox News Digital reported on a California-based law partner for a Beijing law firm donating thousands of dollars to Swalwell's gubernatorial campaign. Like Keliang "Clay" Zhu, Ru'an has a history of supporting interests contrary to American priorities. Ru'an served as one of China's leading officials in Hong Kong between 2015 and 2021, and was a vocal critic of a 2019 U.S. Human Rights and Democracy Act aimed at protecting Hong Kongers from China's authoritarian crackdown on its dissidents that only a single Republican member of Congress voted against.
Ru'an blasted the bill at the time as the "the epitome of hegemony" and warned it went against American interests, according to the South China Morning Post. Ru'an also reportedly slammed the moves as a "negative and disgraceful role" the U.S. was playing in China's domestic issues.
Ru'an emerged as a central figure in Hong Kong during China's national security crackdown there that began boiling over in 2020, 2021 and subsequent years. According to the Hong Kong Journalists Association, Ru'an told …
Unearthed photo of Swalwell meeting with top CCP official raises alarm bells: 'Very disturbing'
Are they actually going to vote on something real?
FIRST ON FOX: A previously unreported 2013 Facebook post by China's San Francisco consulate shows then-freshman Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-Calif., touting "great potential" for U.S.-China cooperation during a meeting with a senior CCP diplomat, which came during the same time period when Swalwell was allegedly targeted by Chinese espionage efforts.
The 2013 photo, which was unearthed by Fox News Digital and "liked" by Christine "Fang Fang" Fang, a Chinese national who was suspected of being a Chinese Ministry of State Security (MSS) operative and who was reportedly working closely with Swalwell's campaign helping with fundraising, showed Swalwell posing with Song Ru'an.
At the time of the photo, Ru'an was the Deputy Consul General at China's Bay Area consulate in San Francisco. He would subsequently be tapped to serve as the Deputy Commissioner of the Office of the Commissioner of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of China in Hong Kong until at least 2021.
"The United States and China have a lot in common and the two economies are highly complementary. There are great potential for the two countries to cooperate," Swalwell said at the meeting according to the picture's caption posted by the Chinese consulate. "I will work actively to promote bilateral economic and trade cooperation, and I'm looking forward to visiting China in the near future."
SWALWELL PROMISES IF ELECTED GOVERNOR, FORMER ICE AGENTS WOULD BE 'UN-HIRABLE' IN CALIFORNIA
The unearthed photo comes a couple of weeks after Fox News Digital reported on a California-based law partner for a Beijing law firm donating thousands of dollars to Swalwell's gubernatorial campaign. Like Keliang "Clay" Zhu, Ru'an has a history of supporting interests contrary to American priorities. Ru'an served as one of China's leading officials in Hong Kong between 2015 and 2021, and was a vocal critic of a 2019 U.S. Human Rights and Democracy Act aimed at protecting Hong Kongers from China's authoritarian crackdown on its dissidents that only a single Republican member of Congress voted against.
Ru'an blasted the bill at the time as the "the epitome of hegemony" and warned it went against American interests, according to the South China Morning Post. Ru'an also reportedly slammed the moves as a "negative and disgraceful role" the U.S. was playing in China's domestic issues.
Ru'an emerged as a central figure in Hong Kong during China's national security crackdown there that began boiling over in 2020, 2021 and subsequent years. According to the Hong Kong Journalists Association, Ru'an told …
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