If you have conflicting information, post the links. "... and hiding her extensive contacts with, and gifts from, agents of the People’s Republic of China (PRC), in exchange for providing them (China) with internal documents from the U.S. State Department. This is called SPYING for China. This is a Violation of the Espionage Act. Violations of the Espionage Act is TREASON. https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/former-state-department-employee-pleads-guilty-conspiring-foreign-agents “Espionage” is defined as “the act of spying or using spies for obtaining secret information.” An act of espionage can be treason as it is a violation of a person’s allegiance to one’s sovereign nation. Espionage is an act where a person or an individual obtains information that is considered to be confidential or secret. When talking about treason, it is a serious betrayal of one’s own nation or sovereign state. “Espionage” can be called an act done for one’s own country whereas “treason” is an act that is done against one’s own country. But espionage becomes treason when the person involved steals valid information from his own country and gives it to another (country).