A young woman was collecting data at a local Chinese-language Epoch Times newspaper vending box in Los Angeles County, California, on April 12, claiming that it was being done at the direction of the “Chinese consulate,” a witness reported. The witness, surnamed Xue, immigrated to the United States over 30 years ago and lives in Arcadia, a Los Angeles city with a large Chinese immigrant population. She has been reading the paper for 10 years. Xue went to buy a copy of the Chinese-language Epoch Times in the newspaper box outside a post office on Wheeler Street in the morning of April 12. In a phone call on the same day, she told The Epoch Times that after parking her car, she soon noticed a young “university-student-like” lady who was standing by the vending box and looking around. “It’s a young ethnic Chinese lady with a book and pen in her …