#California Mayor Resigns, Admitting to Being an Agent for #China https://time.com/article/2026/05/12/arcadia-california-mayor-eileen-wang-agent-china/

[jchyip@mastodon.online]

#California Mayor Resigns, Admitting to Being an Agent for #China https://time.com/article/2026/05/12/arcadia-california-mayor-eileen-wang-agent-china/

[nomdeb@mstdn.social]

@jchyip ten years in prison should apply to a lot of people in the current US administration who are foreign agents!

[vatvslpr@c.im]

@jchyip
I live in an adjacent city (Pasadena) and this kind of thing isn't too surprising. Arcadia is majority Asian American, and a lot of those Asian Americans still have strong ties to the old country. Not too long ago, there was a big disagreement about whether to teach traditional or simplified Chinese writing in Mandarin classes, which was a proxy for disagreements between Taiwan and PRC. It's totally believable that the Chinese government would target local politicians there.