WATCH: ANOTHER Chinese Spy Convicted by Jury for Operating SECRET POLICE Outpost in NYC
President Donald Trump’s high-stakes visit to China comes at a moment when Americans are receiving a disturbing reminder of how deeply Beijing has tried to penetrate American politics, media, and local government.
On the latest episode of The Patriot Perspective, co-hosts Gregory Lyakhov and Ofer Adar discussed Trump’s summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping, the growing threat of Chinese influence operations inside the United States, and why China may become one of the most important players in the ongoing Iran conflict.
The timing could not be more serious. Trump arrived in Beijing this week for a two-day summit with Xi, with trade, technology, Taiwan, and Iran all expected to figure into the broader diplomatic picture.
Trump is joined by a major business delegation, including Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and Elon Musk, as the administration seeks to open China further to American business and preserve a fragile trade truce.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth also accompanied Trump on the trip, an unusual move that signals the meeting is about far more than tariffs. The South China Morning Post reported that Hegseth became the first Pentagon chief in decades to accompany a sitting U.S. president on a state visit to China, and the first since Richard Nixon’s 1972 trip to Beijing.
China’s threat to America cannot be measured only through trade statistics or military power. Beijing’s influence inside the United States is becoming harder to ignore.
Just this week, Arcadia, California, Mayor Eileen Wang agreed to plead guilty to acting as an illegal agent of the People’s Republic of China.
According to the Justice Department, Wang worked from late 2020 through 2022 with Yaoning “Mike” Sun at the direction of Chinese government officials to promote pro-China propaganda in the United States. Sun is currently serving a four-year federal prison sentence after pleading guilty in October 2025 to acting as an illegal agent of a foreign government.
Prosecutors said Wang helped operate a website called “U.S. News Center,” which presented itself as a legitimate news source for the Chinese-American community while allegedly functioning as a mouthpiece for Beijing. The propaganda included content disputing reports about human rights abuses against Uyghurs in Xinjiang.
On Wednesday, a federal jury convicted Lu Jianwang, also known as Harry Lu, of acting as an illegal foreign agent and destroying text messages from a Chinese government handler.
Prosecutors said Lu helped establish a secret Chinese police outpost in Manhattan’s Chinatown neighborhood in 2022. The Associated Press reported that Chinese authorities used such outposts to monitor people Beijing considers enemies of its interests, including pro-democracy dissidents.
These cases show exactly why Trump’s China visit matters. China is not merely a trade competitor. China is a geopolitical rival that seeks leverage through technology, propaganda, economic dependence, diaspora networks, and covert influence.
The same dynamic applies to Iran. China matters in the Iran conflict because Beijing has enormous economic leverage over Tehran. China bought more than 80% of Iran’s shipped oil in 2025, averaging about 1.38 million barrels per day. That makes China Iran’s most important oil customer and gives Beijing a direct stake in whether the conflict continues disrupting energy markets.
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That does not mean China will help the United States out of goodwill. Beijing benefits when America is distracted in the Middle East, when U.S. military resources are stretched, and when Washington has less bandwidth to focus on Taiwan, the Pacific, and China’s technological expansion. But China also needs regional stability, open trade routes, and access to energy.
America cannot negotiate with China as if Beijing is just another trading partner. China is an adversary that buys Iranian oil, pressures Taiwan, steals American innovation, and now stands accused in multiple cases of using agents and propaganda networks inside the United States.
Trump’s challenge in Beijing is simple: engage China where necessary, pressure China where possible, and never forget what the Chinese Communist Party is trying to do inside America.
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