"China's intelligence operations is long, slow, pervasive.” It sends covert teams abroad to bring back people accused, justifiably or not, financial crimes. One NJ family was stalked as part of a global campaign that takes families hostage and pressures immigrants to serve as spies. ProPublica’s veteran intelligence reporter, Sebastian Rotella, took a long look at the modern-day operations of Chinese intelligence on American soil. a long-running global campaign in which Chinese agents have tracked down more than 8,000 people who fled the country rather than face criminal charges. In some countries, the Chinese authorities have followed the law, in others they have simply abducted their prey. Undercover Fox Hunt teams have stalked, harassed or coerced hundreds of people in the United States, including U.S. citizens and legal residents. “The targets are not murderers or drug lords,.”