There you have it! The mayor of Arcadia, California just pleaded guilty to being a foreign agent …
May 13, 2026 · 0 likes · 0 comments
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There you have it! The mayor of Arcadia, California just pleaded guilty to being a foreign agent of the People's Republic of China.
Eileen Wang — a sitting U.S. mayor — was taking directives from PRC officials via encrypted WeChat. Posting Chinese government propaganda on a fake "news" site within MINUTES of receiving orders. Literally copy-pasting articles denying the Uyghur genocide. And when her handler said jump, she responded: "So fast, thank you everyone."
She even communicated directly with John Chen — a high-level PRC intelligence operative with a direct line to Xi Jinping. Her exact words to him: "This is what the Ministry of Foreign Affairs wants to send."
Read that again.
A mayor. In Los Angeles County. Running propaganda ops for Beijing. Executing the Chinese Communist Party's information warfare playbook from inside an American elected office.
And nobody caught it before she won the election.
Wang was elected in November 2022. The conduct — running a PRC propaganda website, coordinating with Chinese intelligence — was happening BEFORE she took office. She walked right through the front door. No counterintelligence screening. No background check. No vetting of any kind.
You can't make this up.
Three people in this ring have now been convicted. John Chen — 20 months. Yaoning "Mike" Sun — 4 years. And now Wang — facing up to 10 years.
But here's what should terrify you: this is ONE city. ONE ring. In ONE county in California. How many more are out there?
We require background checks to work at a gas station on a military base. But you can run for mayor — with active ties to Chinese intelligence — and nobody asks a single question.
China has been running influence operations across every level of American government for decades. Local city councils. State legislatures. Congressional staffers. And we have ZERO systematic counterintelligence screening for elected officials. None.
I have seen this before. The CCP doesn't need to hack our systems when they can just elect their people into them.
Time to wake up!
Source: https://lnkd.in/etrhkju2
Eileen Wang — a sitting U.S. mayor — was taking directives from PRC officials via encrypted WeChat. Posting Chinese government propaganda on a fake "news" site within MINUTES of receiving orders. Literally copy-pasting articles denying the Uyghur genocide. And when her handler said jump, she responded: "So fast, thank you everyone."
She even communicated directly with John Chen — a high-level PRC intelligence operative with a direct line to Xi Jinping. Her exact words to him: "This is what the Ministry of Foreign Affairs wants to send."
Read that again.
A mayor. In Los Angeles County. Running propaganda ops for Beijing. Executing the Chinese Communist Party's information warfare playbook from inside an American elected office.
And nobody caught it before she won the election.
Wang was elected in November 2022. The conduct — running a PRC propaganda website, coordinating with Chinese intelligence — was happening BEFORE she took office. She walked right through the front door. No counterintelligence screening. No background check. No vetting of any kind.
You can't make this up.
Three people in this ring have now been convicted. John Chen — 20 months. Yaoning "Mike" Sun — 4 years. And now Wang — facing up to 10 years.
But here's what should terrify you: this is ONE city. ONE ring. In ONE county in California. How many more are out there?
We require background checks to work at a gas station on a military base. But you can run for mayor — with active ties to Chinese intelligence — and nobody asks a single question.
China has been running influence operations across every level of American government for decades. Local city councils. State legislatures. Congressional staffers. And we have ZERO systematic counterintelligence screening for elected officials. None.
I have seen this before. The CCP doesn't need to hack our systems when they can just elect their people into them.
Time to wake up!
Source: https://lnkd.in/etrhkju2