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Chinese Spy Busted After Surveiling Son of Taiwanese President in US
ShortNews & Politics
Published Oct 5, 2026
Views
3M
Likes
98K
Speed /h
8K
+24h
+3K
Views over time
Views gained each hour, UTC- Views
- 2.6M
- Best hour
- +237
- At 24 hours
- –
- At 7 days
- 2.5M
21 of 147 hours read. A gap is an hour we didn’t read close enough to say, not an hour without views.
viralshooter analytics
Our calculations on YouTube API data. Not YouTube metrics.
Position
- Speed percentile
- 47 / 100
- Category percentile
- 81 / 100
- ×base
- ×4
- Channel typical
- 714K · average
Dynamics
- Phase
- fading
- Acceleration
- 0.03×
- Momentum
- ×0.00
- Decay
- 0.97
- Speed half-life
- 14d
Engagement
- Like rate
- 3.81%
- Comments per 1k views
- 1.09
- Engagement rate
- 3.92%
- Views per subscriber
- 1.67×
- Crossed a language border
- No
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| Region | Chart | Best rank | First seen |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | Category chart | #5 | Oct 12 |
| Canada | Category chart | #10 | Oct 12 |
| Australia | Category chart | #14 | Oct 12 |
| United Kingdom | Category chart | #26 | Oct 12 |
| Denmark | Category chart | #71 | Oct 16 |
| Singapore | Category chart | #79 | Oct 16 |
| Sweden | Category chart | #102 | Oct 16 |
| Norway | Category chart | #119 | Oct 16 |
| New Zealand | Category chart | #122 | Oct 16 |
| Ireland | Category chart | #129 | Oct 16 |
14d
From the YouTube record
Fields of the video as the YouTube API returns them.
- Published
- Oct 5, 2026, 8:08 PM
- Duration
- 1:24
- Category
- News & Politics
- Audio language
- English (en)
- Title language
- English (en)
- Captions
- No
- Definition
- HD
- Format
- 2D
- License
- Standard YouTube
- Licensed content
- Yes
- Embeddable
- Yes
- Made for kids
- No
- Age-restricted
- No
- Paid promotion
- No
- Public stats
- Yes
Topics
- Politics
- Society
Title and description in 20 languages
- Bangla
- English
- Hindi
- Indonesian
- Italian
- Hebrew
- Japanese
- Korean
- Malayalam
- Punjabi
- Polish
- Russian
- Tamil
- Telugu
- Ukrainian
- German
- Spanish
- French
- Dutch
- Portuguese
Tags (13)
- China
- chinese spying
- taiwan
- taiwan spying
- ting-yu lai
- wanying zhang
- california
- arcadia
- irvine
- china secret police
- philip defranco
- pds
- news
Description
Wanying Zhang is an unlikely spy and was caught spying on the son of Taiwan’s president Ting-yu Lai. Zhang was arrested at LAX by the FBI after texts to and from her Chinese handlers were uncovered. —————————— Edited by: Julie Goldberg Writing: Brian Espinoza, Philip DeFranco ———————————— #PhilipDeFranco #China #InternationalNewsShow all
Wanying Zhang is an unlikely spy and was caught spying on the son of Taiwan’s president Ting-yu Lai. Zhang was arrested at LAX by the FBI after texts to and from her Chinese handlers were uncovered. —————————— Edited by: Julie Goldberg Writing: Brian Espinoza, Philip DeFranco ———————————— #PhilipDeFranco #China #InternationalNews
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