American pleads guilty to spying for China

Thomas Pauken ii, son of Republican politician Tom Pauken, pleaded guilty on Thursday to working as an unregistered foreign agent. “By his own admission, not only did Thomas Pauken attempt to infiltrate U.S. political circles at the direction of China’s Ministry of State Security, but he gathered intelligence on his American targets and reported it back to his Chinese intelligence handlers,” said Assistant Director Roman Rozhavsky of the fbi’s Counterintelligence and Espionage Division. “This case illustrates the lengths to which the Chinese Communist Party will go to undermine our democratic institutions and degrade our political freedoms ….” America needs to wake up to the threat from China.