Eileen Wang
Former Mayor of ArcadiaWikipedia
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Oct 13, 2026
Ava KofmanHOST
That included someone Guojun was connected to.
Ava KofmanHOST
Her name is Eileen Wang, and she was serving as the mayor of Arcadia.
David RemnickADVERTISER
This is a story out of a movie.
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The mayor of Arcadia is stepping down tonight after pleading guilty to charges accusing her of working as an agent for China.
Ava KofmanHOST
In one instance, an official had instructed her to post an article denying that human rights abuses were being committed against the Muslim Uyghur population in Xinjiang.
Ava KofmanHOST
That's the same region where Guojun lived and worked in local politics.
Ava KofmanHOST
Guojun had been a top donor to Eileen Wang's city council campaign, and I found several photos of them together online.
Ava KofmanHOST
In one of these pictures at the city councilwoman's victory party, they're seated close together.
Ava KaufmanHOST
That included someone Guojun was connected to.
Ava KaufmanHOST
Her name is Eileen Wang, and she was serving as the mayor of Arcadia.
Mitchell KremsSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
This
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is a
Ava KaufmanHOST
In one instance, an official had instructed her to post an article denying that human rights abuses were being committed against the Muslim Uyghur population in Xinjiang.
Ava KaufmanHOST
That's the same region where Guojun lived and worked in local politics.
Ava KaufmanHOST
Guojun had been a top donor to Eileen Wang's city council campaign, and I found several photos of them together online.
Ava KaufmanHOST
In one of these pictures, at the city councilwoman's victory party, they're seated close together.
Nan SuGUEST
They need to receive this kind of a warning.
Rob SchillingHOST
There was a case that is close to home for me because it took place in the city that I grew up in, in Arcadia, California, where the mayor, Eileen Wang, was exposed as some sort of agent for the Chinese government.
Rob SchillingHOST
Now, this is a medium-sized town in suburban Los Angeles, but I was rather shocked by the fact that somebody who had been elected to office in Arcadia, California, was outed as a Chinese agent, essentially.
Nan SuGUEST
That's Eileen Wong, a mayor of a small city near Los Angeles.
Nan SuGUEST
She actually established some sort of small news media.
Nan SuGUEST
and then trying to broadcast or reaching out to the local community to provide a new service on behalf of Beijing, the Chinese Communist government, and to send some pro-Beijing message out.
Zak PaineHOST
He did admit to participating in a conspiracy to obtain sensitive information from the U.S. government for Beijing.
Zak PaineHOST
And don't forget, just earlier this year, California, Arcadia, California Mayor Eileen Wang resigned after agreeing to plead guilty to charges stemming from allegations she, too, was acting on behalf of the People's Republic of China.
Zak PaineHOST
Federal officials said that Wang received directions from Chinese officials to publish pro-Beijing material here in the United States.
Zak PaineHOST
All of these cases, when you look at them in total, underscored increasingly serious national security problem.
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Zak PaineHOST
All right.
Zak PaineHOST
And she had been in contact with, uh, all of her handlers on many different occasions.
Zak PaineHOST
I don't know if she knew our, our Arcadia mayor, Eileen Wang.
Zak PaineHOST
That would be really interesting if that came up.
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A Los Angeles County mayor.
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Former Arcadia Mayor Eileen Wang.
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Acting as a spy.
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A Chinese agent.
John PhillipsHOST
She may not be Tokyo Rose, but she could be the Shanghai Sunflower.
Randy WangHOST
Here is a campaign commercial from Eileen Wang.
Randy WangHOST
No relation.
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[gentle music] [singing in foreign language]
Randy WangHOST
All right, here is the second ad.
Randy WangHOST
Hold on, let me open this up.
Randy WangHOST
All right, this is the second ad from Eileen Wang, the former mayor of Arcadia when she was running for city council.
John PhillipsHOST
Wait, what is CCTV? Chinese Communist television?
John PhillipsHOST
She may not be Tokyo Rose, but she could be the Shanghai Sunflower.
Randy WangHOST
Here is a campaign commercial from Eileen Wang.
Randy WangHOST
No relation.
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[gentle music] [singing in foreign language]
Randy WangHOST
Hold on.
Randy WangHOST
Let me open this up.
Randy WangHOST
All right, this is the second ad from Eileen Wang, the former mayor of Arcadia when she was running for city council.
John PhillipsHOST
Wait, what is CCTV? Chinese Communist Television?
John PhillipsHOST
She may not be Tokyo Rose, but she could be the Shanghai Sunflower.
Randy WangHOST
Here is a campaign commercial from Eileen Wang.
Randy WangHOST
No relation.
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[gentle music] [singing in foreign language]
Randy WangHOST
Let me open this up.
Randy WangHOST
All right.
Randy WangHOST
This is the second ad from Eileen Wang, the former mayor of Arcadia when she was running for city council.
John PhillipsHOST
Wait.
Chris HandHOST
This is on top of everything else we, we've learned, uh, over the past few years.
Chris HandHOST
And about four months ago, May 11th, 2026, maybe you'll remember Eileen Wang, the may- uh, the then mayor of Arcadia, California.
Chris HandHOST
She was arrested on suspicion of acting as an agent of the Chinese government.
Chris HandHOST
She resigned from the Arcadia City Council the same day.
Steve JohnsonHOST
He wasn't even trying to, uh, fit in like Heather was.
Kenny WebsterHOST
And then the, uh, former Arc- uh, Arcadia mayor, Eileen Wang, entered, entered a plea after admitting she had been a spy for China.
Kenny WebsterHOST
Former Democratic congressman Eric Swalwell's Fang Fang problem got another lap in the press in August-
Steve JohnsonHOST
Hmm
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