美国联邦法官周三裁定，张万盈（“海瑟”）因涉嫌未注册代理人罪被拘押，尽管她的律师——此前一直努力阻止她入狱——表示她“期待在审判中证明自己的清白”。
A federal judge on Wednesday ordered Wanying “Heather” Zhang be held in custody, after her lawyers – who had fought to keep her out of jail – said she “looks forward to establishing” her innocence at trial.
他们辩称，美国政府的案件仅围绕西雅图发生的单日监视行为展开，并不能证明她存在逃跑风险。
They argued that the US government’s case centred on a single day of alleged surveillance in Seattle and was not evidence that she posed a flight risk.
美国地区法官Steve Kim支持检方的观点，检方告诉他，张的父母和兄妹均居住在中国，且她的哥哥曾有与中国政府合作的历史。
US Magistrate Judge Steve Kim sided with prosecutors, who told him that Zhang’s parents and siblings lived in China and that her brother had a history of working with the Chinese government.
“所谓监视行为始于9月1日2025年这一天，并在当天结束，”张的律师在一份反对继续拘押的简介中写道。他们称，政府的申诉“仅指控违反单一未注册代理人法规”，该违规行为发生在西雅图的那一天。
“The alleged surveillance began and ended on a single day, September 1, 2025,” Zhang’s lawyers wrote in a brief opposing her continued detention. The government’s complaint, they said, “charges a single violation” of the unregistered-agent statute arising from that day in Seattle.
“仅就本次拘押听议而言，张女士承认申诉中的指控为真实，正如法院在此时必须做出的判断，”该简介称。“她并不承认这些指控。她对指控提出异议，并期待在审判中证明自己的清白。”在周三的拘押听议上提交的简介中，辩方辩称时间线是判断张是否应在案件审理过程中继续被拘押的关键。律师们写道，所谓监视发生在2025年9月1日，而案件中提及的通信于2025年10月结束。
“For purposes of this detention hearing only, Ms Zhang accepts the allegations of the complaint as true, as the court must at this stage,” the brief said. “She does not concede them. She contests the charge and looks forward to establishing her innocence at trial.”In a brief filed for Wednesday’s detention hearing, the defence argued that the timeline was central to the question of whether Zhang should remain in custody while the case proceeds. The lawyers wrote that the alleged surveillance took place on September 1, 2025, while the communications cited in the case ended in October 2025.
这一论点提出之日为周二，距离FBI在洛杉矶国际机场逮捕34岁的张女士仅三天之前，她当时正准备乘坐去中国的单程航班。
The argument came three days after the FBI arrested Zhang, 34, at Los Angeles International Airport as she prepared to board a one-way flight to China.
FBI表示该航班飞往上海。美国政府秘密提交了刑事申诉并没收了她的美国护照。FBI未发现中国护照。
The FBI has said the flight was bound for Shanghai. The US government filed its criminal complaint in secret and seized her US passport. The FBI found no Chinese passport.
由于美国指控北京利用美籍华裔公民在美国境内对台湾领导人赖清德之子进行监视，本案引起广泛关注。
The case has drawn attention because Washington accuses Beijing of using an American citizen of Chinese origin to conduct surveillance against the son of Taiwan’s leader, William Lai Ching-te, on American soil.
据FBI称，张某及一名助手于2025年9月1日在西雅图郊区赖某之子的家外进行了拍摄。张某 allegedly将照片、视频以及车辆牌照号码发送给中国的一名联系人。
According to the FBI, Zhang and an associate filmed outside the suburban Seattle home of Lai’s son on September 1, 2025. Zhang allegedly sent photographs and video, along with vehicle licence-plate numbers, to a handler in China.
检方引用的消息包括：“看到他了。年轻男子。就是那个年轻人”和“我正在录像”。
Messages cited by prosecutors include: “Saw him. Young male. It’s that young one” and “I am videorecording”.
张某被指控在美国作为未注册的中国政府特工代理人行事，这是一项联邦犯罪，最高可处10年监禁。她尚未被起诉， presumed innocent。
Zhang is accused of acting in the US as an unregistered agent of the Chinese government, a federal offence carrying a potential sentence of up to 10 years. She has not been indicted and is presumed innocent.
辩方表示，政府利用张某在机场的逮捕和她持有的单程机票前往中国，来辩称她可能会逃跑。她的律师们则指出，自称监视行为发生后到她被捕之间有13个月的时间，在此期间她多次出国，包括去中国，每次都回来。
The defence said the government was using Zhang’s arrest at the airport and her one-way ticket to China to argue that she might flee. Her lawyers pointed instead to the 13 months between the alleged surveillance and her arrest, during which she travelled abroad, including to China, and came home each time.
“一个人无法避免她不知道存在的诉讼，”该文件称。“一个打算逃往中国的人不会一次又一次地飞往中国并回来，回到丈夫和女儿身边。”张某的律师表示，最终以她被捕告终的这次行程是提前几周就计划好的，因为她要去看望母亲。该文件称，她将行程延迟到女儿生日之后。她的律师还表示，她通常购买单程机票，并分别购买返程航班。
“A person cannot avoid proceedings she does not know exist,” the filing said. “A person who means to flee to China does not fly there and come home, again and again, to her husband and daughters.”Zhang’s lawyers said the trip that ended with her arrest had been planned weeks earlier so she could visit her mother. She delayed the trip until after her daughters’ birthdays, the brief said. Her lawyers also said she routinely bought one-way tickets and purchased return flights separately.
辩方还质疑了一份预审服务报告，其中转述了案件特工的意见，即张某可能持有中国公民身份，这一因素被用作支持将她拘押的理由。该文件称，该特工未提供任何来源。
The defence also challenged a pretrial services report, relaying the case agent, that Zhang may hold Chinese citizenship, a factor cited in support of keeping her detained. The brief said the agent identified no source.
张某于2014年来到美国，2020年成为美国公民。她在橙县从事房地产工作约十年，2017年与美国公民结婚。他们的女儿年龄分别为8岁和5岁，全家住在2021年购买的尔湾家中。
Zhang came to the US in 2014 and became a US citizen in 2020. She has worked in Orange County real estate for roughly a decade and has been married since 2017 to a US citizen. The couple’s daughters are eight and five, and the family lives in an Irvine home purchased in 2021.
“张女士在这里拥有自己的生活，”辩护方写道，“她的丈夫、女儿们、家以及工作都在这里，她不会离开。”根据辩护方的提议，如果获准释放，张女士将接受GPS监控与居家监禁，且不得进入机场。她的家人及一位朋友还将提供超过80万美元的担保金，同时她们位于尔湾的房产——据辩护方称该房产的净值至少为70万美元——也将被用作抵押品。
“Ms Zhang earned her place here,” the defence wrote. “Her husband, her daughters, her home and her work are all here, and she is not leaving them.”Under the defence proposal, if released, Zhang would be placed under GPS monitoring and home detention and barred from airports. Her family and a friend would also put up more than US$800,000 in guarantees, with the Irvine home – which the defence said had at least US$700,000 in equity – offered as security.
不过法官驳回了这一提议。除非检方提前提起公诉，否则张女士最早将于10月19日出庭参加预审。
The judge rejected that proposal. Zhang is due back as early as October 19 for a preliminary hearing, unless prosecutors indict her first.
张女士的案件是近期一系列诉讼中的最新一例，这些诉讼指控在美华裔为北京方面行事却未履行申报义务。此类案件的判决结果则各不相同。
Zhang’s case is the latest in a run of prosecutions accusing Chinese-Americans in the US of acting for Beijing without notice. The outcomes have been mixed.
在纽约，前州长安德鲁·科莫与凯西·霍楚尔的助手琳达·孙及其丈夫克里斯·胡正在等待重审。
In New York, Linda Sun, a former aide to governors Andrew Cuomo and Kathy Hochul, and her husband, Chris Hu, are awaiting a retrial.
2025年12月，布鲁克林的一个陪审团未能就指控达成一致：孙被指充当未注册的代理人，这对夫妇则被指控通过洗钱及收受利益来换取州政府方面的便利与宣传渠道。
A Brooklyn jury deadlocked in December 2025 on charges that Sun acted as an unregistered agent and that the couple laundered money and took benefits in exchange for shaping state access and messaging.
法官布赖恩·科根将重审日期定在2027年1月18日。此后检方又追加了洗钱共谋罪指控。目前两人均坚称自己无罪。
Judge Brian Cogan set a retrial for January 18, 2027. Prosecutors have since added a money-laundering conspiracy count. Both have pleaded not guilty.
在加利福尼亚州，阿卡迪亚市前市长王艾琳于2026年5月承认自己充当非法代理人，并随即辞职。
In California, Eileen Wang, the former mayor of Arcadia, pleaded guilty in May 2026 to acting as an illegal agent and resigned.
她承认，在当选市长之前，自己曾按照中国官员的指示发布支持北京的言论。目前她正在等待量刑。
She admitted that, before she was elected, she posted pro-Beijing material at the direction of Chinese officials. She is awaiting sentence.
当时还是她未婚夫的孙耀宁也承认了同样的罪名，目前正在服四年监禁。
Her then-fiancé, Yaoning “Mike” Sun, pleaded guilty to the same charge and is serving four years in jail.