{"id":73371,"date":"2026-05-11T21:54:48","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T02:54:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/11\/mayor-of-california-city-resigns-over-charges-of-being-a-foreign-agent-of-china\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T21:54:48","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T02:54:48","slug":"mayor-of-california-city-resigns-over-charges-of-being-a-foreign-agent-of-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/11\/mayor-of-california-city-resigns-over-charges-of-being-a-foreign-agent-of-china\/","title":{"rendered":"Mayor of California city resigns over charges of being a foreign agent of China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eileen Wang, 58, mayor of Arcadia, agreed to plead guilty over the felony count brought by the justice department<\/p>\n<p>Eileen Wang, the mayor of a southern California city, resigned suddenly on Monday after the US Department of Justice (DoJ) announced she had been charged with acting as an illegal foreign agent of China.<\/p>\n<p>Wang, 58, agreed to plead guilty to the felony count and could face a sentence of 10 years in prison.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/may\/11\/california-city-mayor-resigns-foreign-agent-charges\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eileen Wang, 58, mayor of Arcadia, agreed to plead guilty over the felony count brought by the justice department Eileen Wang, the mayor of a southern California city, resigned suddenly on Monday after the US Department of Justice (DoJ) announced she had been charged with acting as an illegal foreign agent of China. Wang, 58, &#8230; <a title=\"Mayor of California city resigns over charges of being a foreign agent of China\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/11\/mayor-of-california-city-resigns-over-charges-of-being-a-foreign-agent-of-china\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Mayor of California city resigns over charges of being a foreign agent of China\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73371\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}