It's Monday, May 18th, 2026 from Peach Fish Productions.

It's the GIST.

I'm Mike Peska.

Eileen Wang, mayor of Arcadia, California, Chinese asset.

A Chinese agent, not spy, but asset at the risk of going on about this story.

And they mentioned it to a few friends.

Yeah, the mayor of Arcadia, and they were like, wait, who?

And sure, why should you know about the mayor of the city of 55,000 in Los Angeles County?

Because she was working for the Chinese.

Why?

And these friends were very, very smart friends, law school professors, literally.

Anyway, it's not the most important story, but I've been very

enraptured by the story because Eileen Wang was by her own admission and plea working for

the Chinese, the communist government. So I talked about this and the coverage of the L.A.

Times. They were a little bit afraid of offending the Chinese, the Chinese non-spies in their audience.

The New York Times had one story after news of the play.

Well, there was one reference in a Trump Coast China story and another roundup of Wang's story.

And a crazy one out of New York, a New York jury found that Liu Xin Wang operated a secret police station,

what they call a secret police monitoring station in Chinatown for the Ministry of Public Security.

He was found guilty of charges of acting as an illegal agent of the government of China.

At least the New York Times didn't spend a lot of time asking if everyone suspects every Chinese person in New York of running a secret police station.

I think in New York the attitude is, yeah, well, we all have our thing, you know.

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