2026年10月5日 / 美国东部时间晚上10:03 / 哥伦比亚广播公司新闻
一名涉嫌中国特工周一现身洛杉矶联邦法庭，此前她被指于去年在西雅图附近监视台湾地区领导人之子。
34岁的加州奥兰治县房地产经纪人张婉莹（英文名“Heather”）出庭时神态平静，身着剪裁合身的白色拉链夹克、运动裤和白色运动鞋，手腕和脚踝佩戴脚镣手铐。哥伦比亚广播公司新闻最先报道，联邦调查局（FBI）于上周日在洛杉矶国际机场将准备搭乘飞往中国上海航班的张婉莹逮捕。
庭审中，她仅确认了自己的姓名，并表示清楚对自己的指控：为中国政府工作却未进行外国代理人登记。
张婉莹在此次听证会上由公设辩护人代理。
史蒂夫·金法官将她的羁押听证会改至周三举行，以便张婉莹有更多时间聘请私人刑事辩护律师。
张婉莹被美国法警拘留，直至周三的听证会。
公设辩护人乍德·彭宁顿告诉法官，他认为张婉莹打算聘请私人律师。
她的丈夫埃德瑞克·丁旁听了庭审，身旁陪同的是其姐姐、律师伊莱恩·洛里。
站在法庭讲台前的张婉莹短暂回头看向丈夫，但未表露任何情绪。
洛里和丁在法庭内拒绝发表评论，听证会结束后走向汽车时面对记者提问也保持沉默。周日通过电话联系丁时，他告诉哥伦比亚广播公司新闻：“我目前一无所知”，并拒绝进一步置评。
三名检察官代表司法部出庭：国家安全局反情报与出口管制部门的斯科特·拉拉，以及助理联邦检察官阿曼达·埃尔博根和科林·斯科特。他们表示无权发表评论。
美国加利福尼亚州中区联邦检察官比尔·埃塞利在X平台上发布了一段视频，显示张婉莹于周日被联邦执法人员押解穿过机场，她当天穿着与周一庭审时相同的衣服。
洛杉矶联邦调查局反情报小组的一名成员在联邦法庭提交的刑事起诉书指控，张婉莹及其一名同谋于2025年9月前往西雅图，并在一名台湾高级官员家人的郊区住宅外拍照。
执法部门消息人士告诉哥伦比亚广播公司新闻，目标人物是台湾地区领导人赖清德之子赖廷宇。
据台湾媒体报道，现年30多岁的工程师赖廷宇在美国上大学，与妻子陈筱育有一个在美国出生的幼子。他目前就职于荷兰跨国电子公司飞利浦。
联邦调查局特工的证词称，政府获取了张婉莹与中国政府官员之间的短信，以此作为其所谓监视行为的证据。
证词显示，在据称前往西雅图的当天，张婉莹 allegedly 给其所谓的中国政府联系人发短信称：“看到他了。年轻男性。就是那个年轻人”，以及“我正在录像”。而赖廷宇邻居家的监控录像显示，当晚赖廷宇、其妻子和孩子回家时，张婉莹“似乎在拍摄”他们。
除周日逮捕张婉莹外，联邦调查局特工还搜查了她在加州尔湾一个高档郊区的住所。
该社区一名居民表示，周日上午她看到约10名联邦调查局特工搜查张婉莹的住所。
“其中几人坐在车库内的桌子旁，”这名因安全顾虑要求匿名的邻居说道。“就连站岗的人都戴着手套。他们告诉我们正在进行搜查。”
根据房产记录，张婉莹似乎是租住此处，她于今年6月以600万美元的价格卖掉了位于一英里外的6030平方英尺、六居室的住宅。
一名前邻居告诉哥伦比亚广播公司新闻，他对这对年轻的房地产夫妇能买得起如此昂贵的房产感到惊讶。
“她自我介绍名叫希瑟，”同样因安全顾虑要求匿名的这名邻居说道。“她非常友好。
“这里的住户通常年纪稍大，因为房价在300万到1000万美元之间，但他们非常年轻，”邻居继续说道。“他们做了很多翻新。尽管房子几乎全新，但他们开始更换大量东西。”
“两年后，他们卖房的价格只比买入时略高一点。花了那么多钱之后，他们为什么要赔钱卖，这说不通，”邻居补充道。
司法部声称，张婉莹于2025年6月至2025年9月期间为中国政府工作却未进行外国代理人登记，并于2025年6月访华期间与北京官员策划了此次监视任务。
联邦调查局反情报与间谍 division 助理局长罗曼·罗扎夫斯基在周一发布的一份声明中表示：“此案的起诉书揭露了中国政府针对美国国土上一名台湾地区官员的近亲属实施的明目张胆的秘密监视阴谋。”
“张婉莹因涉嫌作为未登记的中国政府代理人被捕，这清楚地表明中国的专制政权为实现其目标会走得多远。然而，此案也表明，联邦调查局将坚定不移地捍卫我们民主盟友的主权，并打击中国政府——以及任何外国对手——在我国境内实施跨国镇压的一切企图，”罗扎夫斯基说道。
中国和台湾地区当局尚未回应置评请求。
Alleged Chinese agent accused of surveilling Taiwanese president’s son appears in federal court
October 5, 2026 / 10:03 PM EDT / CBS News
A suspected Chinese agent appeared in a Los Angeles federal court Monday after she allegedly surveilled the Taiwanese president’s son near Seattle last year.
Orange County, California, realtor Wanying “Heather” Zhang, 34, appeared calm, dressed in a tailored, white zip-up jacket, sweatpants and white sneakers, with shackles on her wrists and ankles. CBS News was first to report that the FBI arrested Zhang on Sunday at Los Angeles International Airport before she boarded a flight to Shanghai, China.
In court, she spoke only to confirm her name and that she understood the charge against her of working as an unregistered agent of the Chinese government.
Wanying “Heather” Zhang. FBI
Zhang was represented by a public defender at the hearing.
Judge Steve Kim rescheduled her detention hearing to Wednesday to give Zhang more time to hire a private criminal defense attorney.
Zhang was remanded to the custody of the U.S. Marshals until her Wednesday hearing.
The public defender, Chad Pennington, told the judge he believed Zhang intended to hire private counsel.
Her husband, Edric Ding, watched the proceedings, flanked by his sister, attorney Elaine Lori.
Standing at the podium, Zhang looked back at her husband briefly, but showed no emotion.
Lori and Ding declined to comment inside the courthouse and remained silent as they were questioned by reporters as they walked to their car after the hearing. When reached by phone on Sunday, Ding told CBS News, “I don’t know anything yet,” and declined to comment further.
Three prosecutors represented the Justice Department: Scott Lara of the National Security Division’s Counterintelligence and Export Control Section, and Assistant U.S. Attorneys Amanda Elbogen and Colin Scott. They said they were not authorized to comment.
FBI agents arrested Wanying “Heather” Zhang at Los Angeles International Airport on Oct. 4, 2026. U.S. Department of Justice
U.S. Attorney for the Central District of California Bill Essayli posted a video on X of Zhang being frogmarched through the airport by federal law enforcement on Sunday, wearing the same outfit she wore in court on Monday.
A criminal complaint, filed in federal court by a member of the FBI’s counterintelligence squad in L.A., accused Zhang and an accomplice of allegedly traveling to Seattle in September 2025 and taking pictures at the suburban home of a top Taiwanese official’s family.
Law enforcement sources told CBS News that the target was Ting-Yu Lai, the son of Taiwanese President Ching-Te Lai.
Ting-Yu, an engineer in his 30s, attended college in America and has a young U.S.-born son with his wife, Hsiao Chen, according to Taiwanese media reports. He now works for the Dutch multinational electronics firm Philips.
The FBI agent’s affidavit claimed the government obtained text messages between Zhang and Chinese government officials evidencing the alleged surveillance.
In one exchange, Zhang allegedly texted her supposed Chinese government handler on the day of her alleged Seattle trip, “Saw him. Young male. It’s that young one,” and “I am videorecording,” while footage from Ting-Yu’s neighbor’s security camera showed her “appearing to film” the president’s son, his wife and their child as they arrived home that evening, according to the affidavit.
As well as arresting Zhang on Sunday, FBI agents also searched her home in an upscale suburb of Irvine, California.
A resident of the neighborhood said she saw about 10 FBI agents searching Zhang’s home on Sunday morning.
“Several of them were sitting at a table inside the garage,” said the neighbor, who asked to remain anonymous due to safety concerns. “Even the ones standing guard were wearing gloves. They told us there was a search going on.”
Zhang appears to have been renting the home, after selling her 6,030-square-foot, six-bed house a mile away for $6 million in June, according to property records.
A former neighbor told CBS News he was surprised that the young realtor couple could afford such an expensive property.
“She introduced herself as Heather,” said the neighbor, who also asked to remain anonymous due to safety concerns. “She was super friendly.
“Usually, the people here, they’re a little bit older, because the price of the homes is from $3 million to $10 million. But they were very young,” the neighbor continued. “They did a lot of upgrades. Even though the house was almost brand new, they started changing so many things.”
“Two years later, they only sold it for a little bit higher than what they purchased. It didn’t make sense why would they want to lose money after spending all of that money,” the neighbor added.
The Justice Department claims Zhang was working as an unregistered agent of the Chinese government from June 2025 to September 2025, and plotted her surveillance mission with Beijing officials during a trip to China in June 2025.
“The complaint in this case lays bare a brazen plot directed by the Chinese government to conduct a covert surveillance mission on U.S. soil targeting close relatives of a Taiwanese government official,” Assistant Director Roman Rozhavsky of the FBI’s Counterintelligence and Espionage Division said in a statement released Monday.
“Wanying Zhang’s arrest for allegedly acting as an unregistered agent of the Chinese government makes clear how far China’s authoritarian regime will go to advance its goals. However, this case also demonstrates the FBI’s unwavering commitment to defending the sovereignty of our democratic allies and combating all attempts by the Chinese government – and any foreign adversary – to conduct transnational repression within our borders,” Rozhavsky said.
The Chinese and Taiwanese governments have not responded to requests for comment.