“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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    16 hours ago

    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.

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        If talking with me is self-harm, maybe get offline? Y’know- like I suggested earlier. Because you have been persisting in this “Self harm” for multiple hours now. Pretty sad to watch someone hurt themselves over and over :(