“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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    Hey so ironically because we’re not on db0 here, and there isn’t a specific rule against this on .world:

    This dude’s a fed.

    Account dormant for a year?

    Wakes up to engage in hardcore agent provocateur behavior, terminology perversion?

    Most of their language is framed in a context that just presumes they are some kind of active soldier, currently fighting some kind of lethal battle, planning on becoming a martyr?

    Devolves into just personal insults, tries to destroy your identity?

    Dude’s a fed, probly got a minor socket puppet array.

    Like I’m an anarchist and use tankie as a slur, because I’m an asshole, but this is fucking insane, there’s no way you can know anything about communism and the history of the term tankie and somehow just genuinely conclude that tankies are not a slur for a subset of communists.