SEE IT: Unearthed photo of Swalwell meeting with top CCP official raises alarm bells

February 1, 2026

From Fox News: A previously unreported 2013 Facebook post by China’s San Francisco consulate shows then-freshman Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-Calif., touting “great potential” for U.S.-China cooperation during a meeting with a senior CCP diplomat, which came during the same time period when Swalwell was allegedly targeted by Chinese espionage efforts.

The 2013 photo, which was unearthed by Fox News Digital and “liked” by Christine “Fang Fang” Fang, a Chinese national who was suspected of being a Chinese Ministry of State Security (MSS) operative and who was reportedly working closely with Swalwell’s campaign helping with fundraising, showed Swalwell posing with Song Ru’an.

At the time of the photo, Ru’an was the Deputy Consul General at China’s Bay Area consulate in San Francisco. He would subsequently be tapped to serve as the Deputy Commissioner of the Office of the Commissioner of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People’s Republic of China in Hong Kong until at least 2021.

“The United States and China have a lot in common and the two economies are highly complementary. There are great potential for the two countries to cooperate,” Swalwell said at the meeting according to the picture’s caption posted by the Chinese consulate. “I will work actively to promote bilateral economic and trade cooperation, and I’m looking forward to visiting China in the near future.”

The unearthed photo comes a couple of weeks after Fox News Digital reported on a California-based law partner for a Beijing law firm donating thousands of dollars to Swalwell’s gubernatorial campaign.

The photo was posted to the Facebook page on November 7, 2013, and is still active.

A statement on the Facebook post reads:

On November 5, Deputy Consul General Song Ruan met with U.S. Representative Eric Swalwell, and exchanged views with him on China-U.S. relations and China-California Cooperation. Deputy Consul General Song congratulated Representative Swalwell on his election as one of the youngest members of the House, expressed his sincere hope that the Representative could do his best to promote trade investment and tourism cooperation between China and his constituency. Song also invited the Representative to visit China in near future along with other post-80s congressmen.

.@SpeakerMcCarthy told Fox News Digital an unearthed photo we found of Swalwell and a top CCP official shows how “disturbing” his behavior is amid CCP threat.

(The photo was “liked” by Fang Fang on Facebook)

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