A California mayor just admitted in federal court she was taking orders from Beijing.
That was only the tip of the iceberg.
What investigators uncovered next is something out of a horror movie.
Eileen Wang Pleaded Guilty to Acting as a Chinese Agent
Eileen Wang was the sitting mayor of Arcadia, California – a Los Angeles suburb – when federal prosecutors revealed she had been secretly texting Beijing officials for years.
In one exchange the DOJ highlighted, a Chinese government official sent Wang an article to post on her fake news website.
She made the edits.
He messaged back: "Great!"
She replied: "Thank you, leader."
That was 2021 – one year before Arcadia voters elected her to city council as a Democrat.
Wang and her then-fiancé Yaoning "Mike" Sun ran a website called US News Center, marketed to Chinese Americans as local news.
It was a propaganda operation run under direct orders from Beijing.
PRC officials sent pre-written articles through an encrypted WeChat thread.
Wang posted them without telling a single voter – or the federal government – that she was acting as an agent of a foreign power.
Sun has already been sentenced to four years in federal prison.
Wang pleaded guilty last Friday and faces up to ten years, with sentencing in October.
Her Top Donor Ran a Surrogacy Operation Called Mark Surrogacy Out of a 4 Million Dollar Mansion
Guojun Xuan – one of Wang's largest campaign donors – was simultaneously running what Arcadia police allege was an industrial surrogacy operation out of a nine-bedroom, $4.1 million castle-like mansion.
Xuan is not just a wealthy Chinese businessman.
From 1997 to 2012, he held senior positions in both the Urumqi Municipal People's Congress and the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region People's Congress – the same CCP bodies responsible for overseeing mass internment, forced sterilizations, and the systematic destruction of Uyghur culture.
He then came to California, bought more than 150 properties worth over $105 million, and set up a surrogacy operation in a suburb where his campaign donations bought him access to the mayor's office.
These were Chinese babies born in the United States so they had American citizenship before they were shipped back to mainland China.
Police were alerted when a local hospital reported that a two-month-old boy arrived with traumatic head injuries – allegedly shaken by one of Xuan's nannies.
Officers served a search warrant and found 21 children inside.
Most were born via surrogates through a company called Mark Surrogacy, which Xuan and his partner Silvia Zhang secretly owned.
Ages ranged from two months to thirteen years old.
Surveillance footage allegedly showed nannies physically abusing children – including a nanny spanking a child across a makeshift classroom desk.
Contractors who worked on Xuan's properties told the Daily Mail he openly bragged about his connections to the mayor and local police.
"They would say we can't do anything because they knew the mayor, the police," one contractor said.
"That's how they got away with this – they used powerful people they know."
"He developed that habit in China, spending money and giving bribes to local government officials to form a protection umbrella for them."
Xuan and Zhang remain free on $500,000 bail each.
The nanny fled after police arrived and has not been found.
How CCP Influence Operations Took Over a California City
Wang didn't hide.
She ran a fake news website, took Chinese government money, and bragged about her connections to power – in plain sight – for years.
Her donor allegedly ran a mansion full of children while threatening contractors with those same connections.
Nobody stopped it.
FBI Director Kash Patel posted the moment Wang's charges dropped: "Mayor Wang admitted to acting as a foreign agent from at least 2020 through 2022 – promoting PRC propaganda in the U.S. and acting at PRC's direction to promote their interests."
Court records show the network behind Wang was operating in Southern California since at least the mid-1990s.
Thirty years.
China didn't sneak into Arcadia.
California Democrats held the door open.
Trump's DOJ timed Wang's charges to drop just before the President's summit with Xi in Beijing – a signal that the days of looking the other way are over.
The question isn't how Beijing got this far inside one California suburb.
The question is how many more Democrat mayors across this country are texting "Thank you, leader" right now.
Sources:
- Daily Mail, "California Mayor's Chilling Ties to Depraved Baby Factory," Daily Mail, June 1, 2026.
- U.S. Department of Justice, "Arcadia Mayor Federally Charged with Acting as Illegal Agent of the People's Republic of China," DOJ.gov, May 2026.
- Daily Caller News Foundation, "Meet the Chinese 'Congressman' Accused of Abusing 21 Kids in US Surrogacy Scheme," Daily Caller, July 31, 2025.
- Antonio Graceffo, "China's Infiltration of the U.S.: CCP Surrogacy and Birth Tourism," The Gateway Pundit, March 16, 2026.
- Peter Schweizer, "How China Supercharged Birth Tourism," Hannity.com, January 29, 2026.
- Heritage Foundation, "Why State Legislatures Must Confront Chinese Infiltration," Heritage.org.
- ClearanceJobs, "How China Built a 30-Year Influence Network Inside U.S. Local Government," May 2026.