Chairman Maoyr: Chinese Communist Spy Reached Top Spot at City Hall in California Town – CHINA Experts Available for Interviews
The revelation that former Arcadia Mayor Eileen Wang allegedly operated as an agent of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) should send shockwaves far beyond one Southern California suburb. According to recent reporting, Wang admitted to working on behalf of Beijing’s interests while simultaneously ascending into elected office in America. Yet despite the extraordinary implications, much of the political and media establishment continues treating these incidents as isolated embarrassments rather than evidence of a systemic problem.
Noted experts on China and its CCP who are available for interviews include Senior Investigative Journalist for the Epoch Times, Joshua Philipp, Vice President of NTD and documentary film producer, Steve Lance, California write-in candidate for Governor, Pastor Che Ahn, Epoch Times investigative reporter, Nan Su, and others can provide necessary context on this explosive story.
If the scandal involving Rep. Eric Swalwell and an alleged Chinese intelligence operative alarmed Americans — and it should have — then a literal CCP-linked operative becoming mayor of an American city raises even more disturbing questions. How many more cases exist beneath the surface? How deeply has the CCP penetrated local politics, academia, media, business, and cultural institutions? And why does America continue hesitating to confront the ideological nature of the regime behind it all?
The deeper issue is not simply espionage. It is the persistent refusal by many U.S. leaders and media figures to acknowledge that the Chinese Communist Party is not merely another geopolitical rival, but a Marxist authoritarian regime actively engaged in influence operations inside the United States. There is no scenario in which an American operative could quietly rise through Chinese political leadership while working on behalf of Washington. Yet America’s openness and political complacency continue creating vulnerabilities Beijing eagerly exploits.
Available experts can discuss how the Arcadia case fits into a much broader pattern of CCP infiltration, influence campaigns, elite capture, censorship pressure, and political intimidation occurring across the United States.
Available speakers include:
Steve Lance can discuss the media, propaganda, and ideological dimensions of the CCP’s growing global influence, to include espionage on American soil.
Joshua Philipp can break down China’s strategic doctrine, intelligence posture, and why Beijing increasingly sees global instability as opportunity.
Nan Su provides unmatched insight into internal CCP thinking, factional politics, and the regime’s long-term ambitions.
Jan Jekielek can address the broader civilizational and democratic stakes as authoritarian alliances deepen. The case of a CCP spy as a California city’s mayor is quite indicative of how this happens.
Che Ahn is a write-in candidate for Governor of California and can speak to the corruption and dereliction of duty on the part of elected officials who’ve even allowed this gross oversight or worse, complicit action to take place.
Leeshai Lemish offers crucial perspective on how authoritarian systems like China and Iran similarly weaponize censorship, coercion, and state control against their own populations.
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OPTIONAL Q&A:
- How did an alleged CCP-linked operative rise all the way to mayor of an American city without triggering broader political alarm?
- Why do U.S. institutions continue treating Chinese Communist Party influence operations as isolated scandals instead of part of a coordinated long-term strategy?
- If Americans were outraged over the Eric Swalwell controversy, why is the Arcadia case not generating even greater scrutiny?
- What vulnerabilities in local government make municipal offices especially attractive targets for CCP influence and intelligence operations?
- Why is there still reluctance in media and politics to openly discuss the Marxist ideological nature of the Chinese Communist Party?
- Could cases like Arcadia represent only the visible portion of a much broader CCP penetration effort inside the United States?
- Why would Beijing aggressively pursue influence in American local politics when China itself would never permit reciprocal foreign political activity?
- Does the Arcadia scandal demonstrate the need for a fundamentally tougher U.S. approach toward CCP-linked organizations, influence networks, and political operatives?
ABOUT JOSHUA PHILIPP…
Joshua Philipp is an award-winning journalist and Senior Investigative Reporter at The Epoch Times. He is the host of ‘Crossroads,’ a news and analysis program on EpochTV. His works have included breakthrough investigations into the origins of Covid-19 and the Wuhan laboratory in the early days of the pandemic. He spearheaded the first documentary on the lab leak origins of the COVID-19 virus, released in April 2020. This groundbreaking documentary garnered over 75 million views, and while many tried to label it misinformation, its findings have since been vindicated by the White House and US intelligence agencies. Crossroads with Joshua Philipp – YouTube
ABOUT STEVE LANCE…
Steve Lance is the Washington, D.C. Bureau Chief, Anchor, and Chief Political Correspondent for NTD News, where he hosts Capitol Report, a political news program based in the nation’s capital aimed at providing direct coverage of the voices and people who shape U.S. policy. His knowledge base is U.S. foreign policy and military, geopolitics, to include China to a large degree. Lance is Executive Producer of a powerful documentary film that highlights the CCP persecution inside the U.S. He focuses on investigative documentaries and cinematic storytelling rooted in real-world events. In UNBROKEN: The Untold Story of Shen Yun, Lance leads the film’s investigative narrative, examining threats, sabotage attempts, and the broader campaign targeting the performing arts company. Lance is also an investigative journalist and Vice President of NTD Television.
ABOUT DR. CHE AHN…
Che Ahn is a pastor, national faith leader, and Republican candidate for governor of California. He gained national attention after successfully challenging California’s COVID-era restrictions on churches, securing a legal victory that reinforced protections for religious freedom. He is widely recognized for his leadership, advocacy, and commitment to constitutional principles.
ABOUT JAN JEKIELEK…
Jan Jekielek is senior editor with The Epoch Times, host of the show “American Thought Leaders” and was co-host of “FALLOUT” with Dr. Robert Malone and “Kash’s Corner” with now FBI Director Kash Patel. Years ago, Jan studied the evolutionary biology of lemurs in Madagascar, and his life took an unexpected turn. Exposed to the realities of human rights violations in China, he ended up working with an underground railroad bringing Chinese dissidents through the Golden Triangle to Bangkok and ultimately to Western countries. It was then that he realized that telling unknown heroes’ stories was transformative, both for him and audiences.
Determined to tell true stories, Jan started working with The Epoch Times 20 years ago, at a time when popular narratives in the West hid the dark underbelly of communist China. He did some of the earliest reporting on the Chinese regime’s continuing practice of forced organ harvesting from prisoners of conscience, and he’s the author of the upcoming book, “Killed to Order: China’s Organ Harvesting Industry and the True Nature of America’s Biggest Adversary.”
ABOUT NAN SU…
Nan Su is currently a Senior Reporter for the Epoch Times, a New York-based newspaper published in 36 countries and 22 languages. Mr. Su’s focus has been subjects related to China.
Born and raised in China, Mr. Nan Su came to the United States in 1989. Since 2003, he has served as a news commentator for the SOH International Chinese Radio Network and NTD International TV Network, focusing on news related to China. Over the past two decades, Mr. Su has delivered numerous speeches at public events on a wide range of China-related topics.
As an expert on China, Mr. Su’s work has covered extensively on subjects such as the threat of CCP’s global expansion, the security of Taiwan and Taiwan Strait, CCP’s human rights abuses in China, China’s economy, traditional Chinese culture before communism, forced organ harvesting in China, and the struggle for freedom in Hong Kong.
ABOUT LEESHAI LEMISH…
Leeshai Lemish has been with Shen Yun since 2006. He earned his bachelor’s degree in Chinese history and language from Pomona College, California, and his master’s in international relations from the London School of Economics. He has spent extended periods studying, working, and conducting research throughout East Asia, and has authored articles on Chinese current affairs in both English and Chinese. He joined Shen Yun Performing Arts as an MC when the company was founded in 2006 and has since emceed close to two thousand performances with the company, taking the stage with Shen Yun at prestigious theaters such as Lincoln Center and the Kennedy Center, the London Coliseum, Tokyo Opera City, and many others worldwide. In addition to his performance role, he has tracked and documented on his website over 100 cases of the Chinese Communist Party and its agents trying to sabotage Shen Yun internationally. He has testified on transnational repression in front of Congress, has been a featured guest on television and radio shows around the world, and is the host of the podcast Shen Yun Voices.
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