It turns out that China’s infiltration of California politics went way beyond Fang Fang’s alleged seduction of Eric Swalwell.

According toThe New York Times, Arcadia, California, Mayor Eileen Wang, a Democrat, resigned Monday after she was charged with being an agent for Beijing.

The mayor of the large Los Angeles suburb is chosen from the five-person Arcadia City Council on a rotating basis. However, when Wang took the mayoral job in February, there were already questions about whether she was associated with a 65-year-old Chinese national named Yaoning “Mike” Sun, who wassentencedto four years in prison less than a week after she took the job Feb. 3.

“He was previously engaged to Ms. Wang and had worked on her election campaign as the treasurer, according to public records,” the Times reported.

“When Mike Sun was charged and sentenced, he was accused of helping a politician he considered friendly to Chinese interests win a seat on the City Council. The population of Arcadia, in Los Angeles County, is about 59 percent Asian American, according to census data,” they noted.

“Prosecutors did not name Ms. Wang in the documents charging Mr. Sun, but other details in those court documents pointed to her as the council member who was discussed.”

She stepped down on the day that the Department of Justice announced she’d accepted a plea agreement on one felony count of acting as an illegal agent of a foreign government, which carries a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison.

“Individuals in our country who covertly do the bidding of foreign governments undermine our democracy,” said U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli in the statement.

“This plea agreement is the latest success in our determination to defend the homeland against China’s efforts to corrupt our institutions.”

According to her plea agreement, from late 2020 through 2022, Wang and Yaoning “Mike” Sun, 65, of Chino Hills, worked at the direction and control of PRC government officials and coordinated with U.S.-based individuals to promote the PRC’s interests by, among other things, promoting pro-PRC propaganda in the United States. Sun is serving a four-year federal prison sentence after he pleaded guilty in October 2025 to acting as an illegal agent of a foreign government.

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