https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3353203/southern-california-mayor-will-plead-guilty-acting-agent-chinese-government

Yesterday, Eileen Wang, the mayor of Arcadia California was arrested on the suspicion of working as an agent for the PRC. She is expected to plead guilty. Her boyfriend/fiance Yaoning “Mike” Sun received a similar charge in December 2020, under Biden’s presidency. Mike Sun was sentenced to 4 years in federal prison in October 2025.

US DoJ alleges that Eileen Wang and Mike Sun operated a propaganda news website called “US News Center”, which provided local news for Arcadia but also news related to China. US DoJ alleges that PRC officials sent stories to Eileen and Mike to publish on the website. US DoJ alleges that a PRC official instructed Eileen Wang to publish an article which said “there is no genocide in Xinjiang”.

I obviously don’t believe the US DoJ, Adrien Zenz, etc. Also I read the Eileen Wang arrest story on like a dozen different news websites and none of the websites provided the link to “US News Center”. So I found her website and now I’m sharing it. I want people to see what US DoJ considers to be be “pro-PRC propaganda”.

doj . gov press statement on Eileen Wang Arrest
https://archive.is/UMPah

December 2024 court document for Mike Sun case
https://web.archive.org/web/20250213044049/https://www.justice.gov/archives/opa/media/1381256/dl

Eileen Wang wikipedia was created today
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eileen_Wang

Another NATOpedia page
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_espionage_in_California#Eileen_Wang

Eileen Wang’s twitter account - features her political campaign stuff and links to “US News Center”
https://xcancel.com/eileen1282

Mike Sun’s twitter account - mostly posts links to “US News Center”, retweeted Eileen’s campaign in 2022
https://xcancel.com/m18625013500

Eileen Wang’s campaign website
https://web.archive.org/web/20220325001641/http://eileen4arcadia.com/

Eileen Wang’s youtube channel
https://www.youtube.com/@CouncilmemberEileenWang

Eileen Wang’s tiktok is @eileenli88. It seems deleted.

The “US News Center” url was posted on Eileen’s and Mike’s twitter pages with different variations. I’m not sure if the websites are different but they appear the same at first glance.

https://web.archive.org/web/20210111170922/https://www.usnewscenterla.com/

https://web.archive.org/web/20210518235824/https://usnewsctr.com/

https://web.archive.org/web/20220210171033/https://usnewscta.com/

https://web.archive.org/web/20220506144023/https://usnewsctrla.com/

https://web.archive.org/web/20240121045654/http://usnewscenterca.com/

https://www.usnewsla.com/ this url was used also but there is not good archive.

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    This just seems like a run-of-the-mill news site for Chinese speakers in the local area. I wouldn’t be surprised if they ran ads for Shen Yun. So much forfreeze-peach in the US!

    Thank you for doing some real journalism, comrade! rat-salute-2

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      It’s funny how republicans think California is just a full-woke commie state, the white settlers commited some of the worst violence in the history of the US through genociding natives and the continued anti-Chinese racism. We don’t hear as much about that as we do the settler violence elsewhere like the Trail of Tears, I would guess the influence of Hollywood has had an impact on that.

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        I think it’s also that a lot of the second- and third-generation Chinese, as well as recent immigrants (because who would be fleeing China while they’re completely overtaking the west?), are rabidly anti-communist Hanjian. This, combined, with the US baseline level of Sinophobic propaganda is used to promote the US as “deeply concerned about the human rights violations in China” and other such nonsense. Meanwhile, the US is torturing Chinese expats to death and fomenting anti-Chinese sentiment comparable to the Nazis in regards to Jews.