The mayor of Arcadia admitted to acting as an illegal foreign agent of China in a federal plea deal unsealed on Monday.
Eileen Wang agreed with prosecutors that she worked with the People’s Republic of China to boost propaganda with a fake news website on US soil between 2020 and 2022. She was elected to Arcadia City Council in November 2022. The city is within LA County.
LA’s top federal prosecutor Bill Essayli said this is not the first time China has been caught trying try to exert its influence in the United states.
“Ms. Wang is just the latest to act as an agent for the PRC and it should terrify Americans that she was able to rise to the highest levels of local office in her city,” Essayli said. “I expect her to resign quickly if she hasn’t already.”
According to court documents, Wang worked with her then fiancé, Yaoning “Mike” Sun, on a web site called “U.S. News Center,” which claimed to be news source for Chinese Americans.
But in reality the pair were carrying out Beijing’s orders through the site, and sharing data on how many people had viewed the story with Chinese officials.
Wang and Sun “executed directives” from the Chinese government, posting propaganda designed to help China and reporting back to their masters with screenshots showing how many people viewed the stories, according to the plea agreement.
In one case, Wang’s spymaster ordered her to post a PRC-authored essay denying the existence of genocide and forced labor in the Xinjiang region, according to the document.
“There is no genocide in Xinjiang; there is no such thing as ‘forced labor’ in any production activity, including cotton production. Spreading such rumor is to defame China, destroy Xinjiang’s safety and stability,” wrote Wang’s master, according to the plea agreement.
Wang complied and her handler wrote back, “So fast, thank you everyone.”
In another case, Wang’s PRC boss commended her on page views received by a certain piece of propaganda. Wang wrote back, “Thank you leader”.
Wang is set to appear in court for arraignment in downtown Los Angeles on Monday afternoon. She faces a maximum of 10 years in prison.
@Charles_in_Charge
The same can be said for any foreign nationality, but here we are living in the delusion of civic nationalism and multiculturalism.
you can hqve civic nationalism without multiculturalism
Everyone has to agree to hate the Kike religion and culture to enter but you can be any race
@shortstories @Charles_in_Charge
Chinese hate the kikes, but you still have this situation.
You can have a civic nationalist multiracial socuety that functions just fine as long as it is not multicultural
The problem was not that they let soneone in of what some people might call a mongoloid race
The problem was that they let someone in of Chinese culture
There might additionally have been a problem of the Chinese government threatening to do things to her relatives in China if she does not subvert the United States when she visits
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There used to be a fictional debate about ethics between socrates and confucious by a Professor on youtube
It was fictional because Socrates and Confucious did not meet each other in real life as far as I know and he is guessing what such a debate would be like
When you let in people who practice Confucian culture their moral value system is not based on principles but on authority figures
This is why Europe used to have more advanced science when they met Asians