China’s Cali Harvest! Eyes Wide Open! Royal Betrayal! Putin’s Last Supper!

by Robert Eringer

“Why China wants Calif. Gov. Gavin Newsom to be U.S. President (NY Post)

China knows a good deal when they see one.

And California matters to China. It’s the world’s fourth-largest economy, a major trade partner with deep tech links, massive agricultural exports, and a gigantic Chinese-American community with family and business ties on both sides of the Pacific.

All of which makes Cali one huge espionage hub for the PCR.

Artificial intelligence. Missile tracking. Naval installations. Launch facilities. Semiconductor research. Defense contractors. And universities feeding the talent pipeline. You name it, California has it.

And China wants to vacuum it all up.

If you are China’s Ministry of State Security (MSS), California is not a vacation destination. It is a collection zone.

Vandenberg

In December 2024, federal prosecutors charged Yinpiao Zhou with flying a drone over Vandenberg Space Force Base, restricted national defense airspace. According to the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Zhou photographed the installation during a nighttime National Reconnaissance Office satellite launch. Aerial images were later found on his devices. In May 2025, Zhou pleaded guilty.

Silicon Valley: AI and Missile Detection

In January 2026, a federal jury convicted Linwei Ding, a former Google engineer, of economic espionage and theft of trade secrets involving confidential AI infrastructure technology. Thousands of files on systems used to train advanced artificial intelligence models were stolen and compromised.

In 2025, Chenguang Gong, a San Jose resident, pleaded guilty to stealing trade secrets involving infrared sensor technology designed to detect nuclear missile launches and track hypersonic threats. He was later sentenced to nearly four years in prison.

Apple’s autonomous vehicle division has been the subject of federal trade secret prosecutions involving former employees accused of stealing proprietary information before traveling to China.

Naval Base Ventura County: 2023–2025

In 2023, a U.S. Navy sailor stationed in Southern California pleaded guilty to conspiring with a Chinese intelligence officer and accepting bribes for sensitive military information.

In 2025, federal prosecutors unsealed charges against Yuance Chen and Liren “Ryan” Lai, alleging clandestine activity on behalf of China’s MSS. According to the complaint, activities included photographing a naval installation, facilitating a cash dead drop, and attempting to recruit Navy personnel.

The Feinstein Case: 2018

In July 2018, a longtime staffer in Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s San Francisco office was identified by U.S. intelligence as having contact with Chinese intelligence services.

The Swalwell Case: 2014–2020

In December 2020, a woman identified as Christine Fang (a.k.a. Fang Fang) was discovered by U.S. intelligence of operating on behalf of China’s MSS between 2011 and 2015.

Fang-Fang cultivated relationships with several California politicians, including Rep. Eric Swalwell. She assisted with fundraising and placed an intern in Swalwell’s congressional office.

Universities: Access Points

Federal authorities have brought multiple cases involving nondisclosure of affiliations with Chinese military-linked institutions at California universities.

Access to research AI, materials science, and quantum computing has long-term strategic value.

Bottom Line

California isn’t being “engaged” by China. It’s being worked.

This is a systematic effort by a rival power to steal secrets and siphon leverage from the state that holds America’s technological edge.

What makes it quite hilarious is that California’s Democrat leadership acts as though they’re flattered by China’s attention.

“AOC deploys shocking word salad of ‘ums’ and ‘ahs’ after being asked about U.S. defense of Taiwan at Munich Security Conference” (Daily Mail)

Another reason China roots for Democrats.

The question from an articulate European: “Would and should the U.S. actually commit U.S. troops to defend Taiwan if China were to move?”

The response from an inarticulate Ocasio-Cortez: “Um, you know, I think that I, uh, this is such a, you know, I think that this is a, um, this is of course, a, uh, very longstanding, um, policy of the United States. And I think what we are hoping for is that we make sure we never get to that point…”

Which makes AOC the Kameleon’s undisputed heir as salad toss-master.

“Epstein conspiracy theorists are re-watching “Eyes Wide Shut.” This is why” (The Telegraph)

Victor Ziegler (Sydney Pollack) explaining to Dr. Bill Hartford (Tom Cruise): “Those were not just some ordinary people. If I told you their names... no, I’m not going to tell you their names... but if I did, I don’t think you’d sleep so well at night.”

The movie Eyes Wide Shut has been rediscovered after a quarter-century not as a psychological drama but as an interpretive lens for the Jeffrey Epstein saga.

Millions of pages of court files released by the U.S. government have lit a wildfire of speculation rendering the film’s masked orgy scene as the metaphor for elite secrecy and depravity.

Stanley Kubrick’s masterpiece—released just before his death in 1999—now seems like encoded testimony.

The legendary director didn’t need to know the guest list of some future scandal to understand how power behaves when power’s threshold for sexual excitement exceeds the norm.

He studied institutions his entire career—the military in Paths of Glory, nuclear command in Dr. Strangelove, aristocratic decay in Barry Lyndon.

Eyes Wide Shut turns his lens onto the social elite: wealthy, insulated people whose names open doors that don’t open for others—Kubrick’s thesis statement on how elites enjoy mutual deviant desires and protect themselves through opacity.

Kubrick understood something timeless: when power becomes club-like, when access is tiered, when consequences are negotiable, secrecy becomes ritualized.

What the Epstein scandal revealed, in court filings, victim testimony, and now the released files: There exists a stratum of wealth and influence where appetite outruns conscience and access becomes currency among men who believe their names are stronger than the law.

And, for a long time, they have gotten away with it.

Meanwhile…

“Andrew leaked secrets and met Chinese model at secret dinner as Epstein boasted ‘I’ve got the UK sewn up’” (Daily Mail)

Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor was not only a deviant sex addict, he also acted as Jeffrey Epstein’s homey spy. (Still, no one knows for certain to whom Epstein may have been reporting.)

Newly released emails from the DOJ’s massive trove of Epstein files show that Andrew, as Britain’s special trade envoy to Asia, shared sensitive government reports and diplomatic briefings with convicted sex offender Epstein in 2010 and 2011.

Police in the U.K. are now reviewing these materials to determine whether a full criminal probe is warranted, and whether he should be charged under the Official Secrets Act.

Emails show that in September 2010—a year after Epstein was released from prison for soliciting underage prostitution—Andrew allowed an Epstein aide to accompany him on an official trip to China, Hong Kong, and Singapore.

Worse still, there are multiple instances in which confidential reports and strategic documents were forwarded to Epstein within minutes of Andrew receiving them.

For instance, on Christmas Eve, 2010, Andrew emailed Epstein a British government brief on investment opportunities in Afghanistan.

Let that sink in: A senior representative of the United Kingdom, tasked with advancing British economic and political interests abroad, routed official, confidential government information to a man with a well-documented history of child abuse, sex trafficking, and exploitation.

The palace’s response has been boilerplate: express concern for the victims and remind the public that these are allegations, not convictions.

But without these charges being fully investigated and filed, how can there be any convictions?

So far, only one person connected to Epstein—Ghislaine Maxwell—has been convicted.

And yet, we all now know, there are many deserving of prosecution and imprisonment.

As for Andrew, this is not merely the story of a royal—now a commoner—who was morally compromised. It is the story of someone who betrayed Britain’s national interest.

And that demands more than statements of “profound concern.”

It demands accountability.

“What are the police waiting for? Calls for criminal probe into Andrew grow as fresh claims ‘show it’s clear he abused his position’” (Daily Mail)

What, indeed.

“Navalny’s poisoning confirms that we cannot deal with Putin” (The Independent)

Oh, that finally confirms it?

Some of us confirmed long ago that Putin cannot be trusted in any kind of deal; long before Alexei Navalny was murdered by a psychopathic dictator frightened—like the coward he is—of opposition.

An investigation by Porton Down scientists concluded that the imprisoned Russian opposition leader was assassinated with a poison 200 times stronger than morphine.

The poison—epibatidine—derives from the Ecuadorian dart frog.

Which would be…

…an appropriate last meal for Mad Vlad

And finally…

“Russians load up on antidepressants after four years of war” (The Telegraph)

In apartments from Vladivostok to Volgograd, Russians are swapping M.I.A. war telegrams for prescription slips, apparently discovering that a chemical regulation of mood is more stabilizing than Big Brother’s blustering babble.

What a week—whew!

“WE GIVE A HOOT!”

And you should too.

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