US figure skating champion Alysa Liu opens up on being targeted by Chinese spying operation, FBI's protection

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Alysa Liu was just 16 years old when she met with an FBI agent at a Japanese restaurant to find out she and her family were being spied on by the Chinese government.

It was early 2022, Liu was just about to compete in figure skating at the Winter Olympics in Beijing. It was the first time she visited father Arthur's home country, which he fled as a refugee decades earlier. The Liu family had become targets of the country's spies due to his involvement in the 1989 Tiananmen Square Protests.

Alysa called the experience "a little bit freaky and exciting."

"You know what I mean? It's so … unbelievable. You know what I mean like, that's crazy," she said at a roundtable interview at the USOPC Media Summit on Tuesday.

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Gold medalist Alysa Liu, of the United States of America, poses for a photo after winning the Women's world championship during the 2025 ISU World Figure Skating Championships at TD Garden on March 28, 2025, in Boston, Massachusetts.  (Maddie Meyer/Getty Images)

"Like, imagine finding that out at such a young age, I mean, like In a weird way, I was like, 'Am I like in some prank show?' Like, is this world real like I must be some movie character. But, I mean, it was like it made sense to me, you know, from like everything my dad did back in his activist days."

She recalled sitting across the table from the FBI agent who interviewed her at a local Japanese restaurant.

"I went like to eat dinner with her a couple times I mostly talk, because like, I'm also like, really interested in what she does, like guys like, that's so cool to me