“By her own admission, Eileen Wang secretly served the interests of the Chinese government,” officials say. She was elected mayor of Arcadia in 2022 and has resigned.

Prosecutors said that Wang and Yaoning “Mike” Sun promoted “pro-PRC propaganda” in the U.S. through a website titled “U.S. News Center.” PRC refers to the People’s Republic of China.

Sun pleaded guilty in October to one count of acting as a foreign agent and is serving a four-year prison sentence, the U.S. attorney’s office said.

Wang’s plea agreement says she admits she acted as an agent of China’s government and did not notify the U.S. attorney general as required.

The agreement says Wang and Sun “received and executed directives from PRC government officials to post pro-PRC content on the website” and sometimes sought permission from Chinese government officials to post content.

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            the definition of “tankie” disagrees with you, you should contact everybody else on Earth and let them know they’ve made a horrible mistake!

            Lots of tankies are communists, don’t be silly

            Here’s the origin of the term…

            tankie noun

            A member of the Communist Party of Great Britain who slavishly followed the Kremlin line, agreeing with the crushing of revolts in Hungary and later Czechoslovakia by Soviet tanks

            … and the modern usage follows

            https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tankie

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            Tankie is a pejorative label generally applied to authoritarian communists

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            Uh huh. Well, the Trump administration is officially designating anyone with “anti-Christian,” “anti-capitalism” or “anti-American” views as a terrorist. Do you fit any of those? Then you’ll put put in the concentration camp right along side of me unless we fucking together and you stop punching left.

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                Answer the question: “anti-Christian,” “anti-capitalism” or “anti-American” - do you fit any of those?

                Because you’ll die in a camp right beside me unless we work together. When the US starts rounding up dissidents into camps, US enemies are going to be the only ones that might help us. Europe won’t dare disagree with daddy.

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                  You’re not a commie, despite what you claim. You’re just a fascist that likes the Chinese and Russian flavors instead of American. No one wants you, or likes you. Please go away.

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                    Since you won’t answer the question, I guess I have to assume you love jeebus, love capitalism, and love 'murica.

                    You’d better, because if you don’t, they’re going to fucking kill you. You’ll die because you refused to put aside sectarian differences because you believe, somehow, you can defeat US fascism without working together with the US’s enemies.

                    We hang together or they’ll hang us separately.

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              Nobody is going to defend someone who identifies with the crimes against humanity supported by tankies. This is lemmy, there are plenty of communists here who also have a conscience. If you dont see any problem with authoritarian regimes contempt for human life, than frankly you arent different enough from Trump to be worth anyones support.

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                I can recognize what the bigger problem is. Don’t you believe in supporting the lesser evil?

                We hang together or they’ll hang us separately.