Wen Chen's View

Students from totalitarian regimes more or less have some fear even after they arrive in the land of freedom. The main reason is that their fellows may act as spies to report their speeches or actions to the embassy.    In 2000, I was a fifth-year graduate student at Caltech. My personal life was simple. I played badminton three times a week, meditated daily with Falun Gong practice, and served as a treasurer for the Caltech Chinese Student Club (Caltech C). The Chinese authority started persecuting Falun Gong in 1999, but I continued to meditate on campus every morning. I noticed some Chinese folks took pictures or videos of us during the meditation sessions. One day, the president of the Chinese student club warned me. " Wen, you better be careful. " said he, " The Chinese consulate asked me to report your activities. " He said he was probably not the only one who got this " reques t ".   It happened to many universities. A few years ago, a colleague...

I created this summary on Dec. 23, 2024, for the California Insider interview based on the U.S. Department of Justice reports. I. Mike (Yaoning) Sun, campaign manager of Arcadia council member Eileen Wang in 2022, was arrested on December 17, 2024, for being a CCP (Chinese Communist Party) agent. He is the third arrested member of a group of CCP agents (with 7 - 8 members, according to a DOJ criminal complaint). John (Jun) Chen, leader of this group, and Feng Lin were arrested in May 2023. Chen and Lin were sentenced to 20 and 16 months in prison, respectively, in November 2024. II. Main projects of this CCP agent group:     A.  Manipulate political elections            1. Help Beijing-favored candidates to be elected. In a conversation with PRC government officials, Chen referred to the candidate as being part of a “basic team dedicated for us.”          2. Through their elected candidate, approach other elected...