Weekly posts featuring overviews of criminal cases, highlighting the most compelling instances of Espionage, Economic Espionage, Covert Action, Illegal Exports, and Research Theft.
BOTTOM LINE UP FRONT (BLUF): This intelligence report provides an operational assessment of a highly active, decade-long espionage conspiracy conducted by the People's Republic of China (PRC) Ministry of State Security (MSS) targeting United States national security interests from June 2015 through June 2025. Orchestrated by Chinese nationals Liren "Ryan" Lai and Yuance Chen, the network leveraged easily travelable civilian "co-optees" and U.S.-based couriers—most notably Che
