The alleged Chinese spy who seduced ex-Democratic Congressman Eric Swalwell met him through a nonprofit accused of Chinese Communist Party ties — which is still placing interns with politicians across the US.

Fang “Christine” Fang worked her way up to president of a chapter of The Asian Pacific American Public Affairs (APAPA) group, which she used to help get interns into other political offices in California, one of the group’s stated missions.

Now-disgraced Swalwell told the FBI he considered glamorous graduate student Fang, whom he first met in 2012 before he took office, as his main point of contact with APAPA, according to declassified FBI files.

The same files detailed how Fang had also seduced two other politicians she had met through the APAPA network, both in the Midwest. One was an Ohio mayor, whom she had a sexual liaison with inside a car which was under electronic FBI surveillance, although the mayor’s identity has never been revealed.

In a statement to The Post, APAPA said their “current national leadership has no information” Fang ever held an authorized role in the group.

The leaders of APAPA have been scrutinized by US watchdog groups over their apparent ties to China’s ruling party.

Henry Yin, 79, is APAPA’s national chair and has claimed to be an adviser to California Democratic Congressman Ro Khanna.

Yin, a Chinese-American, is associated with numerous United Front groups, which are arms of the CCP. Between 2013 and 2023, Yin traveled to China to promote tech investment as the “head of the Silicon Valley Entrepreneurs Delegation,” where he gave speeches on “perspectives as overseas Chinese in the US,” according to the party-controlled Sichuan Daily News.

Yin is also named in reports by the CCP-controlled Sichuan Overseas Chinese Affairs Office, which refer to him by his Chinese name as an “overseas Chinese leader in California and Silicon Valley.” A 2013 report from the ministry also mentions an education foundation scholarship in the Yin family’s hometown in Sichuan province, which the ministry supported.

The Yin family is also credited as investing in Renshou County’s “development of science and technology industries,” and attracting investment from the US.

“APAPA is a locus of pro-CCP activity. Its mission is explicitly political,” claimed Jackie Deal, a senior fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute in Philadelphia. APAPA says its mission is to advance Asian and Pacific Islander communities “through increased leadership and civic engagement.”

Yin made inroads in US politics in the early aughts and was appointed to the California Commission for Economic Development in 2010 by then-Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, which was renewed four years later by the next governor, Jerry Brown.

“With my many social networking resources in both the US and China and many, years experience in government, business and social communities, I won’t hesitate if the [US] Federal Government chooses to use me for something in the future,” Yin told the China Daily newspaper at that time.

Yin did not respond to requests for comment on this story from The Post, nor is he accused of any wrongdoing.

Yin has been a senior adviser to Khanna since 2019, according to his LinkedIn page. That same year, Khanna posted to X: “Henry will serve as my Senior Advisor on Foreign Trade and Economic Development.” alongside a photo of him, Yin and other Chinese-American community members.

But Khanna’s spokeswoman denied the connection to Yin to The Post last week, saying: “Henry lives in Fremont and is a respected community member, but has never held a formal role with the Congressman.”

Khanna is the ranking member on the House’s Select Committee on Strategic Competition between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party — which was set up to investigate CCP influence on the US.

He recently asked for a data center “bill of rights” to guard against their proliferation in the US — at a time when recent intelligence reports have indicated the CCP is conducting a coordinated campaign to stall the development of US AI data centers.

APAPA said it has “not taken a position” on the issue of data centers, but added: “Personal views of individuals associated with APAPA do not represent an organizational position.”

The group also has links to other currently serving politicians.

In Brooklyn, Assemblyman William Colton took home a “Community Champion Award” from APAPA at the group’s 2023 gala. Colton’s former longtime aide, Susan Zhuang, was a volunteer and member of APAPA.

Zhuang was elected to City Council in 2023, and was arrested for biting a cop during a homeless protest in 2024. The charges were later dismissed after she completed a restorative justice program.

Democratic New York State Senator Samra Brouk has hosted APAPA interns in her office, according to APAPA’s website, as has Democratic New York State Assemblyman Ron Kim.

In California, Marilyn Cachola Lucey, APAPA’s national Chief Operating Officer is a former policy director for California Assemblywoman Rebecca Bauer-Kahan.

Another APAPA board member, Andrew Truman Kim, worked as an aide to Rep John Garamendi (D-Calif.)

None of those aides have been suspected of wrongdoing or tied to China or espionage, but watchdogs warn at a time of heightened security such as now, officials need to be on high alert.

“Public officials should strongly scrutinize any APAPA efforts that align with CCP objectives, including the CCP influence operations to prevent data center construction across America,” said Michael Lucci, founder and CEO of State Armor, a nonprofit countering CCP threats.

Khanna’s office said of Yin: “The Congressman does not know Henry’s views on AI data centers and has never discussed the issue with him.”

The employment history or personal views of individuals associated with APAPA do not represent an organizational position. 

Meanwhile, Fang graduated from Beijing’s University of International Relations, a spy school run by the Ministry of State Security, according to Chinese media reports. She worked as a flight attendant before coming to the US around 2011 on a student visa. She was under FBI scrutiny two years later, according to the declassified papers.

The agency even tried to recruit her as a double agent, but that attempt failed and once she realized she was being surveilled, she fled to China in 2015, according to reports.

She now works for a tech company in her home country. She claimed to Chinese media that both the FBI and CIA had tried to recruit her, offering her US citizenship and $1 million to turn on her home country or risk “ruin” at their hands, causing her to flee.