The mother of a U.S. Navy sailor charged with providing sensitive military information to China encouraged him to cooperate with a Chinese intelligence officer, telling her son it might help him get a job with the Chinese government someday, the prosecution said Tuesday.
The actual bar for treason in the US is a very high one and she almost certainly does not meet it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treason_laws_in_the_United_States
In popular discourse, people assert that something is reason in a vastly wider range of cases than where the law is really applicable.
Well, I learn something new everyday, Thanks!