Southern California mayor resigns, will plead guilty to acting as agent for Chinese government

Arcadia, CA. In case anyone was looking here for the actual name of the town.

For anyone who doesn’t know the story, she ran an online news site aimed at the Chinese-American community in California. She was spreading propaganda by publishing articles that the PRC government instructed her to post, including one that stated the Uyghurs were not being mistreated.

What she is actually pleading to is acting as an unregistered lobbyist for a foreign government. The thing that Mike Flynn got in trouble for for Turkey.

This stuff is exactly why people end up suspicious of both governments now If she knowingly acted as an agent then throw the book at her, but every few months there seems to be another story showing how deep the spying game goes between major countries Feels like normal people are just stuck in the middle while intelligence agencies all play chess with each other

People tell me how much more they trust alternative news sources because "at least they aren't part of the global conspiracy". But then look at this - who funds these? At best it's a crackpot in their basement with a grudge, and at worst it's a *foreign government using it as a puppet*

Is this the same Cali town that had like two dozen babies born by American surrogates to a Chinese couple? Found link: yes it is. 21 babies https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/21-children-birthed-by-surrogate-mothers-found-in-arcadia-home/3746013/

So we can investigate our politicians for being foreign assets and charge them accordingly…..  Gestures towards Congress and the White House….

The politicians working for corps or to enrich themselves should be treated the same.

Yet Israel, Saudi or Russian connections are ok! Obviously get her out but there’s a double standard at play here.

So 95% of the house and senate will be arrested for taking AIPAC bribes, right?

I cetainly hope they do a major investigation into the people around her to ensure there are no more foreign agents in our government.

The more I learn about this sort of thing I’m always surprised how little spies and foreign agents get paid. Back in the 80’s a high ranking CIA officer compromised hundreds of agents who were tortured and murdered in the space of about 10 years for a couple million. Ames was his name if interested.

Every other comment is "but what about Israel/Russia/Saudia Arabia etc.". The whataboutism is crazy.

Context/background >According to her plea agreement, Wang and a colleague, Yaoning “Mike” Sun, worked on behalf of government officials for the People’s Republic of China from the end of 2020 to 2022 to promote their interests by promoting pro-PRC propaganda in the U.S. Sun is serving a four-year sentence after he pleaded guilty to the same charge last October. He was also listed in campaign filings as the treasurer for Wang’s 2022 election campaign. >Wang and Sun operated the news website U.S. News Center, aimed at the Chinese American community, and were instructed by Chinese government officials to post pro-PRC content on it. >In one instance in June 2021, a government official sent Wang a link to a letter to the editor published in the Los Angeles Times written by the consul general of the People’s Republic of China in Los Angeles. >The piece refuted reports of the persecution, forced labor, and abuse of Uyghers in China’s Xinjiang province, stating, “There has never been genocide in Xinjiang or forced labor in the region’s cotton fields or any other sector.” >Within minutes, Wang shared the link on her news site.

Where are the politicians that aren't agents of foreign governments?

Holy c***, the Philippines had this exact same problem a couple of years ago.

Whataboutism: the comment thread.

This sounds crazy until you remember that our president is a Russian agent.

How about the Russian Assets we have running the WH?

China blackmails people and uses their family back home as leverage. We should definitely do our best to stop this from happening but let’s not pretend that most of the people caught are spies of any consequence. They’re usually desperate.

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Now do it for Israeli influence

16+ stories a day on here about Trump being corrupt (which is good) 1 story about someone else being corrupt. "What about Trump?" This is the ridiculous part to me.

Interesting that she changed from Republican to Democrat in 2022. I don't know that this is relevant to this story or what it means but it is interesting.

It’s disturbing how many of you, ostensibly Americans, are acting this is just like no big deal. You’re either incredibly stupid, bots, or bought.

“Under current Chinese law, all citizens and organizations have a legal obligation to support and cooperate with state intelligence efforts. This requirement is primarily established by the National Intelligence Law of 2017 and reinforced by the updated Counter-Espionage Law of 2023”

kinda unrelated but whatever happened to Sheng Thao

It all boggles my mind that these people think we will not get caught.

That's crazy! almost like when the Russians put that blond guy in the White House.

People not born in America shouldn't be allowed anywhere near our politics.

this keeps happening btw, some east asian country had this scandal happen a couple years back, she was smuggled into their country as a child, given a stolen identity and then groomed to be in politics.

[CNN.com](http://CNN.com) failed to report her party affiliation. This is usually part of a standard news story. She switched from longstanding Republican to Democrat in 2022. I'm not a Republican nor do I support Trump. Sad that I feel the need to add that caveat when pointing out that this fact should have been included and probably would have been if she had turned out to be a Republican. Do better, CNN.

Funny how we can charge but every republican and democratic promoting a certain country in a certain location are allowed to get away with it.

How is this not treason?

So if she was working for Israel she’d be good.

She should’ve acted as an agent for Israel, she would’ve been fine

Someone in government is being held accountable for crimes? Must be a Democrat.

# When will trump will plead guilty to acting as agent for russian government?

I went down the rabbit hole on this. It’s not new or unusual for there to be Chinese spies.

Is that still a crime? I thought Michael Flynn was a national hero for doing the same thing?

this is gonna suck because people don't get the legal definition of "agent for a foreign country" and think she was probably parking CCP tanks in everyone's garage is it wrong and should she be persecuted? sure. are the media and people gonna react proportionately to the crime? lol no