China Just Bought a Building 650 Feet From the White House and the Man Who Did It Trained as a Sniper

A Chinese intelligence operative trained as a military sniper just bought a building 650 feet from the White House.

He paid more than $8 million for it three weeks ago – and nobody stopped him.

Now a former CIA officer says this is exactly where the next 9/11 comes from.

A Spy Resume That Would Get Anyone Else Deported

Philip Qiu – Chinese name Qiu Feili – is not a businessman who happens to support China.

He is a trained operative who happens to buy real estate.

His résumé starts with the Shanghai Criminal Investigation Team, a branch of China's equivalent of the FBI.

He then enrolled in a Shanghai Jiaotong University master's program where students carried rifles, wore fatigues, and ran military wargames.

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His university's own announcement recorded the results: Qiu commanded a Red-Blue combat exercise and personally eliminated one-third of opposing forces with 42 shots – the best individual sniper record in the program.

That man just purchased the 100-year-old Securities Building on 15th Street NW on July 21, 2026, through a vehicle called the Philip Qiu and Family Foundation.

This Is Not One Affiliation. It Is Four.

Qiu's intelligence connections don't stop at the Shanghai police.

He has held at least three positions inside the United Front Work Department – Beijing's premier global influence and espionage apparatus, which the House Select Committee on the CCP describes as a "blend of engagement, influence activities, and intelligence operations."

He served on the executive committee of the Shanghai branch of the UFWD's All-China Federation of Returned Overseas Chinese.

He rose to chairman of ACFROC's Shanghai Overseas Chinese Foundation – which Beijing itself describes as the "only charity in the Shanghai UFWD system."

On top of those three, his fourth government role is honorary chairman of the Hong Kong Immigration Department Staff Association, through which he organized events introducing Hong Kong students to the Shanghai SWAT team as recently as 2024.

At foundation events, Qiu has openly called the CCP "our party" and pledged to execute Xi Jinping's directive to keep overseas Chinese loyal to Beijing.

This is not soft cultural diplomacy.

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The UFWD exists, according to America's own intelligence community, to build networks that the Ministry of State Security – China's CIA – then exploits for espionage.

Bryan Dean Wright, a former CIA operations officer, laid out exactly what this building gives China.

"This property allows access for big splashy intel ops as well as for more classic ops – like a listening post or Stingray-like systems to collect phone calls, text messages, and digital exhaust," Wright told the Daily Caller News Foundation.

Then he said the quiet part out loud.

"But what's especially alarming are emerging ops that properties like this allow – like hidden drone swarms or shipping container missiles. This kind of property is where the next 9/11 will come from. It's coming,” he added."

Beijing Has Been Running This Play for Years

This is not an isolated transaction.

Chinese entities have been acquiring land and buildings near America's most sensitive installations for over a decade.

A Chinese intelligence officer owns two golf courses flanking Barksdale Air Force Base in Louisiana – the base that controls aspects of America's nuclear triad.

A Chinese military-linked company bought 300 acres near Grand Forks Air Force Base in North Dakota.

A former Chinese military officer acquired 140,000 acres near Laughlin Air Force Base in Texas, where the Air Force trains pilots.

By 2022, the USDA reported China controlled nearly 350,000 acres of American farmland – much of it clustering near military installations.

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What Qiu just did in Washington is the same strategy – executed one block from the people who run the country.

Nobody Said No

Gordon Chang, author and China expert, didn't mince words.

"No Chinese citizen should be permitted to own, lease, or occupy any real estate that gives him or her the ability to surveil any sensitive federal installation," Chang told the DCNF. "No ifs, ands, or buts."

Michael Lucci, founder of the national security organization State Armor, called the risks "screamingly obvious" and demanded the government force a sale immediately.

The pattern is undeniable at this point.

Beijing doesn't send soldiers to the front door.

It buys the building across the street, installs the equipment, and waits.

Under Biden, this happened repeatedly without serious consequence.

Trump has the legal tools to force a sale and ban this from happening again.

The question is whether his administration moves before Philip Qiu finishes moving in.

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Sources:

• Philip Lenczycki, "EXCLUSIVE: CCP Intelligence Official Buys Building Steps From White House," Daily Caller News Foundation, August 13, 2026.
• "National Security Experts Sound Alarm Over CCP-Linked Land Ownership Near US Military Bases," Fox News Digital, January 8, 2026.
• "China Continues Buying Up Land Near US Military Installations," The Daily Signal, April 28, 2026.
• House Select Committee on the CCP, "United Front 101," U.S. House of Representatives.
• "U.S. Intelligence Tracks Chinese Military-Linked Purchases of Land Near Strategic Bases," Modern Diplomacy, January 25, 2026.