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Ex-California mayor Eileen Wang pleads guilty to acting as China agent
Eileen Wang, a former Southern California mayor, pleaded guilty to acting as an illegal agent of the Chinese government by sharing articles favorable to Beijing without prior notification to the US government. She was charged in April with one count of acting in the US as an illegal agent of a foreign government.
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