“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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    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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      So long as I don’t have to hang next to you, specifically, I’ll die happy. Christ, you’re an insufferable loser- just like all tankies.

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        Okay, I’ll tell you what the fascists are going to do to me. I won’t just be killed immediately. I’m trans. They’ll take away my hormones and put me in men’s prison, and what do you think they’ll do to me in men’s prison? Yankees looove to make jokes about it, everyone knows what will happen to women like me. I probably won’t even survive to my execution.

        And you love it. My only crime is having an opinion that’s different from yours on China, and you’d happily die just for me to face a fate worse than death.

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          Lol keep on with your victim complex. I hope your life gets better so you don’t feel like everyone is out to get you, specifically. The fact that you’re trans doesn’t matter to me- I just wish you would transition into a more likable person. The fact that you brought it up shows just how empty your actual values and positions are.

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            We’re literally being put on the FBI terrorism watch list. The government is out to get me.

            And you love it. If there’s one thing liberals and fascist agree on, it’s killing people like me.

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              “No one likes me, because I’m a tankie loser- Waaaah!!!”

              Lady, you need to get off the internet, and actually touch grass. Interact with those around you. Find an actual hobby- because you are really sad to watch spiral.

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                Idaho just passed a bathroom bill making it illegal for trans women to use the women’s restroom. It comes with jail penalties, and the Trump regime has issued rules saying that trans women who are incarcerated do not get access to hormones and are to be placed into men’s facilities. The same regime is also putting people with “radical gender ideology” onto the FBI terror watch list.

                This is happening right now. They’re going to kill me first, and you’ll cheer. As you’ve already said you want me to die.

                And then they’re going to come for you, and there won’t be anyone left to speak out for you. Start taking this seriously.

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                  I won’t cheer- when I get killed, I can take comfort in the fact that it wasn’t by your side, or any other tankie for that matter.

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                    You take comfort in the fact that I am going to be tortured and r*ped to death in men’s prison, like CIA-backed death squads used to do to communists in Latin America and Southeast Asia - and those were “”“tankies”“”, supporters of and sometimes supported by China and the USSR. That’s the fate you want for me, and you want it so badly that you’d happily die to make it happen.

                    Talking to you is self harm. I hope you wake up to the real danger we’re all in before we all fucking die.