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DOJ: 'Chinese foreign agent' charged with surveilling Taiwanese president's family
A California real estate agent accused of being a Chinese agent and following the Taiwanese president's son and his family has been arrested, the Department of Justice said. Pierre Thomas has the story.
60 Minutes
What the coverage shows
Both outlets center on the same core story: the arrest in Los Angeles of Wanying “Heather” Zhang and the allegation that she was surveilling the son of Taiwan’s president. 60 Minutes frames it through the court appearance and the Taiwan link, while The Hill’s headline, via NewsNation, foregrounds the arrest at LAX and adds that Zhang is described as an Irvine real estate agent. The Hill’s extract is also the only one to mention she was accused of acting as an unregistered agent for the Chinese government.
Written by Crossfiled from the 2 headlines and extracts below, not from the articles themselves. It describes how the outlets framed this, not what happened. Open any headline for a summary of that article.
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