India, May 12 -- Eileen Wang, the mayor of Arcadia, has confessed to functioning as an unlawful foreign agent for China, leading to her resignation in a startling federal plea agreement that was made public on Monday.

Wang has come to an understanding with prosecutors that she collaborated with the People's Republic of China to enhance propaganda via a fraudulent news website operating on US territory from 2020 to 2022. She was elected to the Arcadia City Council in November 2022 - a city situated in the San Gabriel Valley within Los Angeles County.

Wang, 58, partnered with her then fiance, Yaoning "Mike" Sun, to create a website named "U.S. News Center," which purported to serve as a news source for Chinese Americans, as per court docu...