'Thank You Leader': California Mayor Pleads Guilty to Working as CCP Agent
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The Epoch Times
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🗓️ 15 May 2026
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
Just earlier this week, the mayor of Arcadia (in Northeast Los Angeles) agreed to plead guilty to illegally acting as an agent of China.
She was the mayor of an American city, while actually being an out-and-out agent for the Chinese Communist Party—even going so far as calling a Chinese official her “leader.”
Let’s go through the details of her case together.
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| 0:00.0 | Just earlier this week, the mayor of a California city located in northeast Los Angeles |
| 0:05.0 | pled guilty to illegally acting as an agent of China. |
| 0:09.0 | She was the mayor of an American city while actually being an out-and-out agent for the CCP, |
| 0:14.0 | even going so far as to call a Chinese official her quote-unquote leader. |
| 0:19.0 | Let's go through the nuances and the details of her case, because through her case, |
| 0:23.9 | we can see the broader techniques that the CCP uses to basically infiltrate American |
| 0:29.6 | society. |
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| 0:41.5 | Thank you so much for that. To start with, the city in question is called Arcadia. It's located about 13 miles northeast of downtown L.A. And it's a fairly Asian area, evidenced by the |
| 0:48.5 | fact that 65% of the people living there identify themselves as being Asian. Now, four years ago, back in November of |
| 0:55.6 | 2022, Ms. Eileen Wong ran for city council. Ms. Eileen Wong, she was born in Chengdu, which is the capital |
| 1:02.8 | of Sichuan province in southwestern China, and prior to entering politics, she ran a tutoring center |
| 1:09.3 | called Little Stanford Academy for students K-12. |
| 1:13.1 | Ms. Wong also founded and led a Chinese-American Chamber of Commerce. Now, she eventually did win |
| 1:19.1 | that election, and she became a councilwoman. And the way that it works over in Arcadia is that |
| 1:24.3 | they have a five-person city council and the position of mayor rotate among those |
| 1:29.5 | five individuals. And so in 2025, it was her turn and therefore Ms. Wong became mayor. So far, |
| 1:36.5 | all good. It's a true American come-up story. You have an immigrant moving here from a foreign |
| 1:41.4 | country, establishing routes, starting up a business, running for office, |
| 1:45.9 | getting elected, and now she can serve her community. Great. The only problem is that the |
| 1:51.4 | quote-unquote community that she was serving actually appeared to be the Chinese Communist Party. |
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