{"id":210249,"date":"2025-10-08T23:23:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T23:23:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/210249\/"},"modified":"2025-10-08T23:23:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T23:23:13","slug":"us-diplomat-fired-over-romance-with-chinese-woman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/210249\/","title":{"rendered":"US diplomat fired over romance with Chinese woman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">US President Donald Trump\u2019s administration said on Wednesday that it had fired a State Department employee who did not acknowledge a romantic relationship with a Chinese national.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cThe State Department has officially terminated the employment of a Foreign Service officer who admitted concealing a romantic relationship with a Chinese national with known ties to the Chinese Communist Party,\u201d State Department spokesman Tommy Pigott said.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The State Department said the officer, a man whom it did not identify, said on camera that the Chinese woman \u201ccould have been a spy\u201d but did not say if there was any proof of espionage.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The dismissed employee said his partner\u2019s father was \u201cstraight-up communist party\u201d, according to the State Department.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"US State Department spokesman Tommy Pigott speaks during a press briefing in Washington in July. Photo: AFP\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/5ab4f094-1a54-44be-acfc-2fb06a1836dd_c9b24cc4.jpg\" title=\"US State Department spokesman Tommy Pigott speaks during a press briefing in Washington in July. Photo: AFP\"\/>US State Department spokesman Tommy Pigott speaks during a press briefing in Washington in July. Photo: AFP<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The Chinese Communist Party permeates life in the billion-plus country in areas from business to education, with many ordinary Chinese maintaining ties out of practicality as much as ideology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"US President Donald Trump\u2019s administration said on Wednesday that it had fired a State Department employee who did&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":210250,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,144,37365,120184,39642,12,19040,120183,3,4121,28697,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-210249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-china","tag-chinese-communist-party","tag-chinese-national","tag-cold-war","tag-donald-trump","tag-espionage","tag-foreign-service-officer","tag-news","tag-state-department","tag-tommy-pigott","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210249\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/210250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}