Tulsi Gabbard's political career was secretly directed by her guru Chris Butler. Under the pen name Bo Zhongyan (
柏忠言
), Butler also coauthored anti-Western books in China with his wife Wai Lana (Zhang Huilan,
张蕙兰
). They described Westerners as
"no more than dogs"
and dedicated their 1986 book to
"the great and magnificent Chinese nation"
—
这个伟大，壮丽国家的全体中国人民.
Source
Thousands of documents and emails from the covert Science of Identity political operation have been independently examined by the Washington Post. The content on this website is attributed solely to the site's author.
U.S. military secrets stolen. Critical infrastructure hacked. The personal files of 21.5 million federal employees breached. Secret police operating on American soil. This is what the Chinese Communist Party is doing right now, inside the United States and across our allies.
First-person account
"I was a senior PR strategist for Tulsi Gabbard from 2011 to 2019. Despite knowing Butler and the Gabbards for 30+ years, I never had any inkling of his secret connections to the CCP. I only uncovered his CCP ties last year as I sought to make sense of the campaign by Tulsi's inner circle to silence me and destroy my life, which I detail in another post."
— Rebecca Saltzburg, Whistleblower & Founder, Patriots Fight Corruption
The FBI, CIA, State Department, and Office of the Director of National Intelligence have all identified China as the most serious threat to U.S. national security. In January 2025, FBI Director Christopher Wray called China "the defining threat of our generation." 15
The CIA has more than doubled the share of its budget focused on China and created a dedicated China Mission Center. 17
The 2025 Annual Threat Assessment from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence identified China as the "most comprehensive and robust" military threat to U.S. national security. 16
In 2020, the State Department ordered the Chinese consulate in Houston closed after federal officials described it as a hub of espionage and intellectual property theft. 18
Between February 2021 and December 2024, the FBI documented more than 60 CCP-related espionage cases across 20 U.S. states. 6
In 2015, Chinese state-sponsored hackers breached the Office of Personnel Management and stole the security-clearance background investigation files of 21.5 million current and former federal employees. 19
What was in those files?
These are SF-86 forms, the most invasive personal questionnaire the federal government uses. Each file includes:
- Financial records and debts
- Names and details of family members
- Foreign contacts
- Mental health history
- Drug use
- Criminal history
- Every address for the past 10 years
- Personal references
That is a complete blackmail dossier on 21.5 million people who hold or held U.S. security clearances.
In October 2024, Chinese hackers compromised at least nine U.S. telecommunications companies, including AT&T and Verizon, and penetrated the wiretap systems used by U.S. law enforcement. Senator Mark Warner called it "the worst telecom hack in our nation's history." 20
In March 2025, three U.S. Army soldiers were arrested for selling classified military secrets to contacts in China. 3
China is targeting other Western allies too. In May 2026, Germany arrested a married couple for spying for Chinese intelligence at German universities. 1
In July 2025, four Chinese nationals were arrested in Greece for photographing military fighter jets at an air base. 2
Here's what that looks like.
Stealing military secrets
Inside the U.S. military
In March 2025, the FBI arrested three U.S. Army soldiers for selling classified military information to individuals in China. According to the Department of Justice, one soldier sold 20 classified hard drives, including those marked "SECRET" and "TOP SECRET," to contacts in China for at least $15,000. The stolen information included data on the High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS) and U.S. military readiness for a potential conflict with China. 3
In June 2025, the FBI arrested two Chinese nationals for attempting to recruit U.S. military service members on behalf of the Chinese government. 4
Targeting allied militaries
On May 20, 2026, German federal prosecutors arrested a married couple in Munich who had been spying for Chinese intelligence. According to Bloomberg, the couple posed as interpreters and employees of an automobile manufacturer to contact researchers at German universities in aerospace engineering, computer science, and artificial intelligence, seeking information with military applications. 1
In July 2025, four Chinese nationals were arrested at Greece's Tanagra Air Base after photographing the base's fleet of Rafale fighter jets and Hellenic Tactical Air Force headquarters. Investigators found a large collection of photographs of the military installation on their devices. 2
Systematic cyber espionage
According to a 2013 report by the cybersecurity firm Mandiant, the Chinese military's Unit 61398 compromised at least 141 organizations across 20 industries, including aerospace and defense, and stole hundreds of terabytes of data: technology blueprints, proprietary manufacturing processes, test results, and business plans. In one case, 6.5 terabytes of compressed data were stolen from a single organization over 10 months. 5
Stealing American technology
$200–600B
Estimated annual cost of Chinese IP theft to the U.S. (FBI)
60+
CCP-related espionage cases across 20 states (2021–2024)
Smuggling military-grade AI chips
Since 2022, the U.S. has restricted exports of advanced AI chips to China, recognizing their role in military AI development. China's response has been to build smuggling networks to get around the restrictions.
In a March 2026 federal indictment, Yih-Shyan "Wally" Liaw, a co-founder of Supermicro, and others were charged with routing approximately $2.5 billion in Nvidia-equipped AI servers to China through a transshipment network running from the U.S. through Southeast Asia. (Supermicro and its CEO were not charged and the company says it is a victim and is cooperating.) In a separate case in November 2025, two Chinese nationals and two Americans were charged with smuggling advanced Nvidia AI chips to China in an approximately $3.9 million operation. 7
Stealing agricultural and biotech research
Starting in 2011, Mo Hailong, a business executive with the Chinese agricultural conglomerate DBN Group, was caught stealing proprietary inbred corn seed samples from DuPont Pioneer and Monsanto test fields in Iowa. The stolen research was valued at an estimated $30 to $40 million. Mo was arrested in 2013 and sentenced to three years in federal prison in 2016. In a separate case, a Chinese researcher was caught stealing genetically engineered rice seeds from a Kansas laboratory in 2013 and was sentenced to more than 10 years in prison. 8
In the pharmaceutical sector, former employees at GlaxoSmithKline were caught stealing trade secrets related to anti-cancer products and funneling them to Renopharma, a Chinese pharmaceutical company that received direct funding from the Chinese government. The FBI arrested the lead defendant in 2016. 9
Hacking into critical infrastructure
Inside American infrastructure
In May 2023, the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), along with the NSA and FBI, issued a joint advisory revealing that Chinese state-sponsored hackers known as Volt Typhoon had compromised networks at U.S. critical infrastructure organizations across the communications, energy, transportation, and water and wastewater sectors. According to a February 2024 follow-up advisory, the hackers had maintained access to some of these networks for extended periods, positioning themselves to disrupt operations if ordered to do so. 10
The power grid
In late 2023, the Wall Street Journal reported that Chinese hackers had gained access to networks at U.S. power utilities, including a Texas power grid operator, a Hawaii water utility, and a West Coast port. U.S. National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan reportedly told executives at a White House meeting that Chinese hackers had gained the ability to shut down U.S. ports, power grids, and other critical infrastructure. 11
Running secret police on American soil
The "Fox Hunt" program
Since 2015, the Chinese government has operated a program called "Fox Hunt" aimed at hunting down Chinese nationals whom Beijing considers fugitives. The FBI has documented cases where Chinese government operatives intimidated, harassed, and attempted to coerce U.S.-based Chinese nationals into returning to China. 12
In June 2023, a federal jury convicted three people, including a private investigator from New Jersey, of stalking and conspiracy for their role in a years-long campaign to coerce a former Chinese official living in New Jersey to return to China on behalf of the Chinese government. Chinese consular officials have also shown up at the homes and workplaces of U.S.-based Chinese dissidents, pressuring them to return. 12
Secret police stations
On May 13, 2026, Lu Jianwang was convicted in a Brooklyn federal court of acting as an illegal agent of the Chinese government, tied to an undisclosed police station he helped run in Lower Manhattan on behalf of the Chinese government's Ministry of Public Security. His co-defendant, Chen Jinping, pleaded guilty to a related charge in December 2024. According to the Department of Justice, the station was used to locate and pressure Chinese nationals living in the United States. 13
In May 2026, the mayor of Arcadia, California resigned after agreeing to plead guilty to acting as an unregistered agent of the Chinese government, having published pro-Beijing propaganda between 2020 and 2022. 14
The pattern
The Chinese government is conducting espionage operations across every domain: military, technological, industrial, and political. It is happening inside the United States, across Europe, and in allied nations around the world. The operations range from soldiers selling classified documents for cash to state-sponsored hacking groups embedded inside American critical infrastructure networks.
These are not isolated incidents. Between 2021 and 2024, more than 60 CCP-related espionage cases were documented across 20 U.S. states. In 2023 and 2024, the FBI warned about expanded Chinese intelligence operations, and the Department of Justice prosecuted Chinese operatives for conducting unauthorized police operations on U.S. soil. 6
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This is the regime that turned Tulsi Gabbard's guru and his wife into a state-sponsored media empire. The same government waging this campaign against the United States spent decades promoting the family at the center of her religious community.
