CCP Intelligence Official With MPS UFWD and MSS Ties Buys Building 650 Feet From White House Complex

A Daily Caller News Foundation investigation found that Philip Qiu, known in Chinese as Qiu Feili, purchased the century-old Securities Building at 729 15th Street NW, roughly 650 feet northeast of the White House grounds, through the Philip Qiu and Family Foundation for $8.4 million on July 21 12. DCNF reporting, citing university records and translated Chinese government announcements, documented Qiu's prior work as a Shanghai Public Security Bureau detective, special-forces and sniper training at Shanghai Jiaotong University, and at least three United Front Work Department-linked posts including chairmanship of the Shanghai Overseas Chinese Foundation 12. DCNF reported that SOCF's secretary general has also directed an organization identified by former Australian Strategic Policy Institute analyst Alex Joske as a Ministry of State Security front 12. DCNF further found the Philip Qiu and Family Foundation's headquarters is a separate historic property roughly half a mile north of the White House, an address shared with several Qiu-controlled entities including the Chinese American Museum in Washington, which Qiu co-founded in 2017, and that Chinese government entities co-sponsored at least eight museum programs, four of them backed by United Front Work Department-controlled organizations 12. Townhall, PJ Media and World Tribune each relayed the DCNF findings, with Townhall and PJ Media additionally citing former CIA officer Bryan Dean Wright and China analyst Gordon Chang on the property's potential surveillance uses 345. Qiu did not respond to DCNF's requests for comment 12.