Here’s the criminal complaint against Baimadajie Angwang (a sinicization of Pema Dechen Ngawang?), the Tibetan PRC national arrested for acting as a PRC agent in violation of 18USC951, considered “espionage lite.” Some observations based on the complaint:
https://www.justice.gov/usao-edny/press-release/file/1318501/download

1. The PRC considers Tibetans to be one of the “five poisons” threatening regime stability. It's using United Front tactics like cultivating cooptees, exploiting community divides, identifying key influencers and assets, and spreading disinformation. This will continue.

2. Ngawang and his handler were targeting the Tibetan community center in Queens as a hub of the Tibetan-American community in NY. They thought this venue would provide fertile ground for spotting and assessing potential assets, and other clandestine intelligence activities.

3. Ngawang and his handler discussed rewarding cooptees with money and visas. The PRC is weaponizing its control over access to Tibet. This shows the PRC’s restrictions on access to Tibet — targeted in the 2018 Reciprocal Access to Tibet Act — remains a national security issue.

4. Ngawang recommended leveraging “bujie xiongdan” (Dorjee Shugden), a cult the PRC has long tried to weaponize. The main group disbanded after its PRC ties were exposed, but China is still trying to use it to spread divisiveness in the Tibetan community. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-dalai-lama/group-that-hounded-dalai-lama-disbands-after-reuters-exposes-chinese-backing-idUSKCN0WD203

5. Ngawang was interested in young Tibetan-Americans in US politics. This includes one who ran for office, and “U.S. citizens of Tibetan ethnicity ... working in the offices of elected officials”. China is especially worried they'll gain influence to “promote anti-PRC positions.”

6. The code name the FBI was using for Ngawang seems to have been “Clever Storm”.

7. Tibetans have long been dealing with the leading edge of the PRC’s most advanced tactics of authoritarian control: cultural and demographic genocide, high-tech grid surveillance, diasporic cyber-attacks. If you want to understand PRC authoritarianism, look to Tibet.

8. *Disclaimer: I spent years in the national security field, including working on foreign intelligence and counter-intelligence. These observations are solely based on open source information from the criminal complaint.