（NY Times 英文版报道） Two U.S. Navy Sailors Charged With Helping China Prosecutors said the two sailors in California gave Chinese intelligence officers U.S. military secrets and sensitive information. One of the two Navy sailors accused of spying was assigned to a ship based at Naval Base San Diego. The charges appear to reflect the Chinese government’s deep interest in the U.S. Navy’s Pacific Fleet. Two Navy sailors in Southern California were arrested and accused of providing military secrets and sensitive information to Chinese intelligence officers, according to a pair of federal indictments unsealed on Thursday. Jinchao Wei, known as Patrick Wei, 22, was charged with spying for China under the Espionage Act. Mr. Wei serves aboard the Essex, an amphibious assault ship moored at Naval Base San Diego, which is the home of the Pacific Fleet. As a machinist’s mate, investigators said, he had clearance that gave him access to sensitive national security information. The second sailor, Petty Officer Wenheng Zhao, 26, also known as Thomas, was charged with taking bribes in exchange for providing sensitive U.S. military information to a Chinese intelligence officer posing as an economic researcher. Mr. Zhao worked at the Naval Base Ventura County in Port Hueneme, which is home to several aircraft squadrons and the service’s naval construction battalions in the Pacific. The charges appear to reflect the Chinese government’s deep interest in the Navy’s Pacific Fleet and other aspects of the American military’s operations in that region, part of a broader effort by China to steal American corporate and national security secrets. Already, the extent of Chinese spying, including cyberbreaches, has prompted top national security officials to sound the alarm. In testimony before Congress this year, the F.B.I. director, Christopher A. Wray, warned, “There’s no country that presents a more significant threat to our innovation, our ideas our economic security, our national security than the Chinese government.” In a news conference in San Diego on Thursday, Randy S. Grossman, U.S. attorney for the Southern District of California, said that Mr. Wei, 22, a naturalized citizen, chose to “betray his newly adopted country,” rather than report inappropriate contact from a Chinese intelligence officer. Mr. Grossman said the section of the Espionage Act under which Mr. Wei was charged has been used just a handful of times in the past few years, underscoring the seriousness of the crime. The betrayal was particularly acute in San Diego, he added. “San Diego indeed has a storied history with the United States Navy,” he said. “That’s why this conduct is personal for San Diego, and we will not stand for it.” Mr. Wei began working for China in early 2022, prosecutors said. In serving as a machinist’s mate for the Navy, he is an engineer trained to operate and maintain a range of equipment, from small pumps to refrigerators to large machinery for propelling a ship through the ocean. He provided his handler with the defense and weapons abilities of U.S. warships as well as their vulnerabilities, communicating via encrypted platforms. In one instance in June last year, the Chinese intelligence officer asked Mr. Wei for information about “the number and training of U.S. Marines during an upcoming international maritime warfare exercise.” In another instance, Mr. Wei received $5,000 for 30 technical and mechanical ship manuals, the court filing said. Some of the information that Mr. Wei provided to the Chinese was deemed “critical technology” by the U.S. Navy. In a news release, the Justice Department said that warships like the Essex serve as the “cornerstone of the U.S. Navy’s amphibious readiness and expeditionary strike capabilities.” The U.S.S. Essex returning to San Diego in 2012. Mr. Wei was evidently seeking U.S. citizenship while working clandestinely with China, according to the indictment, with his handler congratulating Mr. Wei when he received it. In the second indictment, Mr. Zhao, who is from Monterey Park, worked at an unnamed Chinese intelligence officer’s direction from August 2021 through at least May this year. Among the sensitive details he sent the officer were electrical diagrams and blueprints for a radar system stationed on a U.S. military base in Okinawa, Japan, as well as operational plans for a large-scale U.S. military exercise in the Indo-Pacific region. Those plans, prosecutors said, detailed the specific location and timing of naval force movements, amphibious landings, maritime operations and logistics support. Mr. Zhao was not charged under the Espionage Act, but a Justice Department news release says he faces 20 years in prison if convicted. Both men earned thousands of dollars secretly working for China, prosecutors say. The arrests come a year after the Justice Department ended a contentious initiative begun under the Trump administration to fight Chinese national security threats that critics said unfairly targeted professors of Asian descent and added to a surge in anti-Asian sentiment. In the news conference, Stacey Moy, the top F.B.I. agent in San Diego, told reporters that he wanted to emphasize that “this is not and will never be an indictment of the Chinese people or ethnically Chinese Americans.” The men were slated to appear on Thursday before federal judges in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles and San Diego.
她家生意的确和中国来往挺深的
我在NBC nightly news看到了，还把两个士兵的名字和照片放出来。
大家不用爱国心爆棚，互相刺探军事机密是多方互相做的事情，美国还监听过Angela Merke的电话。
https://amp.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jul/08/nsa-tapped-german-chancellery-decades-wikileaks-claims-merkel
美国有那么多国外间谍，为什么单单把抓到中国间谍的事在黄金时段的晚间新闻指名道姓加照片报道？
还有他们的主要anchor去阿拉斯加参观美军基地也是强调中国的气球事件，而不是那个地区最主要的和俄军的对抗。
这种时候作为亚裔应该危机意识爆棚，而不是爱国心爆棚。
zg擅长谍报和宣传洗脑，看国民党怎么垮台就知道了
据穿某一年在北京政府机关内现场击毙过一名美国间谍，真假不知
前几天本版有人鼓吹当兵军校“比上藤校强10倍”的某主出来发点高级评论？ 要是立志从军那不错，结果那些当兵就想着那点好处学费工作啥的，当兵先想着如何能不上战场 。。。
抛开忠诚度当间谍之类的风险，以自己之短比别人之所长，还是那个问题，混美军系统亚裔混得过非裔吗？ 曲线救国也很浪费时间的，你得在军队呆够年限
我觉得这点你应该相信他，zg很多事情处理的很“机智灵活、不拘一格”
不是美国自己说的吗？破坏的很严重，大概有少部分漏网了
这没办法打赌，就是认罪或者定罪，相信的会相信，不信的也能找到理由不相信，自由心证
Two U.S. Navy Sailors Charged With Helping China Prosecutors said the two sailors in California gave Chinese intelligence officers U.S. military secrets and sensitive information.
Two Navy sailors in Southern California were arrested and accused of providing military secrets and sensitive information to Chinese intelligence officers, according to a pair of federal indictments unsealed on Thursday.
Jinchao Wei, known as Patrick Wei, 22, was charged with spying for China under the Espionage Act. Mr. Wei serves aboard the Essex, an amphibious assault ship moored at Naval Base San Diego, which is the home of the Pacific Fleet. As a machinist’s mate, investigators said, he had clearance that gave him access to sensitive national security information.
The second sailor, Petty Officer Wenheng Zhao, 26, also known as Thomas, was charged with taking bribes in exchange for providing sensitive U.S. military information to a Chinese intelligence officer posing as an economic researcher. Mr. Zhao worked at the Naval Base Ventura County in Port Hueneme, which is home to several aircraft squadrons and the service’s naval construction battalions in the Pacific.
The charges appear to reflect the Chinese government’s deep interest in the Navy’s Pacific Fleet and other aspects of the American military’s operations in that region, part of a broader effort by China to steal American corporate and national security secrets. Already, the extent of Chinese spying, including cyberbreaches, has prompted top national security officials to sound the alarm. In testimony before Congress this year, the F.B.I. director, Christopher A. Wray, warned, “There’s no country that presents a more significant threat to our innovation, our ideas our economic security, our national security than the Chinese government.”
In a news conference in San Diego on Thursday, Randy S. Grossman, U.S. attorney for the Southern District of California, said that Mr. Wei, 22, a naturalized citizen, chose to “betray his newly adopted country,” rather than report inappropriate contact from a Chinese intelligence officer.
Mr. Grossman said the section of the Espionage Act under which Mr. Wei was charged has been used just a handful of times in the past few years, underscoring the seriousness of the crime. The betrayal was particularly acute in San Diego, he added.
“San Diego indeed has a storied history with the United States Navy,” he said. “That’s why this conduct is personal for San Diego, and we will not stand for it.” Mr. Wei began working for China in early 2022, prosecutors said. In serving as a machinist’s mate for the Navy, he is an engineer trained to operate and maintain a range of equipment, from small pumps to refrigerators to large machinery for propelling a ship through the ocean.
He provided his handler with the defense and weapons abilities of U.S. warships as well as their vulnerabilities, communicating via encrypted platforms. In one instance in June last year, the Chinese intelligence officer asked Mr. Wei for information about “the number and training of U.S. Marines during an upcoming international maritime warfare exercise.”
In another instance, Mr. Wei received $5,000 for 30 technical and mechanical ship manuals, the court filing said. Some of the information that Mr. Wei provided to the Chinese was deemed “critical technology” by the U.S. Navy.
In a news release, the Justice Department said that warships like the Essex serve as the “cornerstone of the U.S. Navy’s amphibious readiness and expeditionary strike capabilities.”
Mr. Wei was evidently seeking U.S. citizenship while working clandestinely with China, according to the indictment, with his handler congratulating Mr. Wei when he received it.
In the second indictment, Mr. Zhao, who is from Monterey Park, worked at an unnamed Chinese intelligence officer’s direction from August 2021 through at least May this year.
Among the sensitive details he sent the officer were electrical diagrams and blueprints for a radar system stationed on a U.S. military base in Okinawa, Japan, as well as operational plans for a large-scale U.S. military exercise in the Indo-Pacific region. Those plans, prosecutors said, detailed the specific location and timing of naval force movements, amphibious landings, maritime operations and logistics support.
Mr. Zhao was not charged under the Espionage Act, but a Justice Department news release says he faces 20 years in prison if convicted.
Both men earned thousands of dollars secretly working for China, prosecutors say.
The arrests come a year after the Justice Department ended a contentious initiative begun under the Trump administration to fight Chinese national security threats that critics said unfairly targeted professors of Asian descent and added to a surge in anti-Asian sentiment.
In the news conference, Stacey Moy, the top F.B.I. agent in San Diego, told reporters that he wanted to emphasize that “this is not and will never be an indictment of the Chinese people or ethnically Chinese Americans.”
The men were slated to appear on Thursday before federal judges in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles and San Diego.
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因为中国政府好面子。联想被俘的志愿军回国的待遇就明白了。决定去台湾的是因祸得福
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BTW: 那2个海军小年轻可真是够意思啊，要的那点钱还不够人家组织一顿饭的钱，后面再加2个0也不过。看看人家傅小田，捐个园子大概就要至少1000万英镑吧。
一帮sb
你觉得他们会为了一顿饭钱当间谍吗？用屁股都能想到根本不可能，所以这个事情肯定是冤假错案
你有证据证明人家是假的? 没有就别否则。更不要低估人家爱国的心❤，要不怎么才给5000? 你看夏威夷小岛上那些日本2代，日本政府给他们1毛钱啦? 还不是跟那个日本飞行员绑架人家土著人。
美国冤枉华裔是间谍的事情还少吗？
中共偷美国情报的难道少吗？去看看金乌带的故事吧。你没证据否定，只能说你见的少。哪国国家没有间谍，哪个国家没有间谍机构？我可没说这是真还是假，一切皆有可能。
为啥给你韭菜公布，你以为你谁啊？可笑。
这他么是一回事么？
再读一遍 “美国冤枉华裔是间谍的事情还少吗？”
你他么的说，中共偷美国情报的难道少吗， 中共偷情报，就能证明美国不冤枉华裔么？
难道不是谁提出谁举证？ 现在开庭了么？给证据了么？ 你就在这胡咧咧
他也没拿出证明，说这个CASE是冤枉的啊？本来就有真间谍。我也没说这个一定是真的，我只是说，真的也有（金乌岱是真的），冤枉的也有。不能把以前的case来证明这个case，这点逻辑很难懂吗？？？那个小日本的飞行员绑架并且枪杀夏威夷的原住民，然后导致美国政府把日裔美国人关进集中营的事情是真真切切发生的。而且这个事件说明，钱根本不是关键。
对啊，你要是觉得可疑，可以去找那个新闻报道机构或者美国国防部举证啊，没人拦着你啊！既然“游戏人生”说人家诬告，那我让他举证不是很合理吗？谁make statement, 让谁举证，这不就是逻辑吗？？你有逻辑吗你？瞎咧咧！
疑罪从无，这是法律界的基本道理。 他没被定罪，就是嫌疑犯
你说他有罪不需要给证据 反而别人说无罪需要给证据 啧啧啧
请川普证明自己无罪，呵呵
我什么时候说他是有罪的？？我只是说，这点钱太少了吧，比起人家傅晓田捐的园子，不过爱国心是不能用金钱来衡量的，然后举了日本人的例子来认证“爱国心是不能用金钱来衡量的”。这只是基于文章的内容调侃一下，我什么时候认证这个报道的内容都是真的，他们是间谍了？？？有毛病吧。
每个人说的statement, 我都可以问他，你这样说的依据是什么？他要不要回答是他的权力，问不问是我的权力，我怎么就不能问呢？你也可以去问新闻机构和美国国防部他们的依据是什么啊，我绝对不会阻止你！我也没让那些被告的人拿出证据来说他们是清白的，他们没有make statement，同理川普也不用拿出证据，我看你是逻辑有问题！再说“游戏人生”是个什么大人物，他说什么你就信了？不需要依据吗？呵呵！脑子是个好东西。
我也没说他们有罪啊？我只是调侃了一下amount, 这就是肯定他们是有罪了？“游戏人生”用这么肯定的语气说人家是诬告，你怎么不追呢？我就想知道他这么肯定，是不是有啥线索，难道不行吗？
小红书上很多码农，直播自己工作，拍公司食堂，我已经觉得很不妥了。这军队的还发，简直是智商堪忧。