Come On, Eileen

Arcadia, California’s mayor, plans to plead guilty to acting as an illegal agent for Beijing.

From 2020-2022, Eileen Wang, 58, and her then-fiancé and campaign treasurer Yaoning “Mike” Sun—now serving four years for the same offense—ran U.S. News Center, a site reportedly posing as Chinese-American local news.

Directed by Chinese officials via WeChat, the duo posted articles denying allegations of forced labor or genocide in Xinjiang, China, often within minutes of receiving handoffs from Beijing. In one 2021 message, Wang allegedly told PRC intel: “This is what the Ministry of Foreign Affairs wants to send.” 

Wang resigned Monday and faces up to 10 years in federal prison. FBI Director Kash Patel has vowed to “root out” foreign influence in American institutions; city officials called the case “deeply troubling” and said city funds weren’t compromised.

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A verse to consider when you feel let down by the corruption of man…“God is not a man, that he might lie, or a son of man, that he might change his mind. Does he speak and not act, or promise and not fulfill?” 
Numbers 23:19 (CSB) (read full passage)