A guilty plea by a California mayor has exposed Beijing’s campaign to use domestic elections as a way to shape political outcomes in the United States, and experts warn the threat will only deepen.
Eileen Wang, the mayor of Arcadia, California, was charged with acting as an illegal agent of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), the Department of Justice said on May 11.
She agreed to plead guilty to the felony count and faces a maximum sentence of 10 years in federal prison, according to the Justice Department. Wang resigned from office the same day.
Ken Wu, vice president of the Los Angeles chapter of the Formosan Association for Public Affairs, said China will continue targeting U.S. city and county leaders as primary infiltration objectives, operating with enough caution to avoid detection in many cases….
California Mayor’s Guilty Plea Reveals China’s Infiltration of US, Analysts Says
