Posted on 04/03/2025 8:24:36 AM PDT by DFG
The U.S. government has banned American government personnel in China, as well as family members and contractors with security clearances, from any romantic or sexual relationships with Chinese citizens, The Associated Press has learned.
Four people with direct knowledge of the matter told the AP about the policy, which was put into effect by departing U.S. Ambassador Nicholas Burns in January shortly before he left China. The people would speak only on condition of anonymity to discuss details of a confidential new directive.
Though some U.S. agencies already had strict rules on such relationships, a blanket “non-fraternization” policy, as it is known, has been unheard of publicly since the Cold War. It’s not uncommon for American diplomats in other countries to date locals and even marry them.
A more limited version of the policy was enacted last summer prohibiting U.S. personnel from “romantic and sexual relations” with Chinese citizens working as guards and other support staff at the U.S. Embassy and five consulates in China. But Burns, the departing ambassador, broadened it to a blanket ban on such relations with any Chinese citizen in China in January, days before President Donald Trump took office. The AP was unable to determine exactly how the policy defined the phrase “romantic or sexual relationship."
Two of the people with knowledge of the ban told the AP the new policy was first discussed last summer after members of Congress contacted Burns to express concern that restrictions on such relationships were not stringent enough. The House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party did not respond to a request for comment.
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Good luck stopping that.
must be a CONgresscritters to engage in that sort of stuff.
Rep Eric Swalwell (D-Calif) is heartbroken!!
They calling it the Swalwell bill?
Surprised this hasn’t been a regulation for the last 75 years.
It's called the NO MORE BANG BANG FANG FANG bill.
Not to mention Senator McTurtle
In unrelated news, China ramps up importing stolen Mexican children....
Good move should’ve Have been instituted a long time ago. You get caught doing this you’re fired and your security clearance pulled.
Too bad so sad. Agent Smith is a traitor, plain and simple.
Exactly.
What, no honeypots? Swalwell will be irate!
LOL!
The purpose is not to stop it. Read between the lines.
They are putting employees on notice that their expense accounts will not be reimbursed if “Chinese hooker” is listed.
What??? No honey pots??? Oh, the humanity!
Note that Didi Tang wrote this in trepidation.
The catch word is “citizens”. There are vast number of former Chinese citizen-spies who are now legally citizens of other nations, but again living in China.
The only way to reduce this would be with a substantial counterintelligence program.
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