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Chino Hills, California, resident Yaoning “Mike” Sun, 64, was arrested on Thursday and charged with acting as an illegal agent of Beijing while influencing local elections.
Sun allegedly conspired with another defendant named Chen Jun to get the unnamed candidate elected. Chen was Sun’s contact with the PRC government, which was interested in developing more “influence” over American politicians, “particularly on the issue of Taiwan.” Chen and Sun kept their influence operation running after the election, building a “U.S.-China Friendship Promotional Association” and writing more political analysis for Chinese Communist Party leaders. In February 2023, Sun asked the PRC government to provide $80,000 in funding to combat “anti-China forces” in Washington.
Chen, now 71 years of age, pled guilty in July to attempting to bribe undercover federal agents as part of atargeting practitioners of Falun Gong, a spiritual discipline loathed by the Chinese Communist Party and banned in the PRC. Chen and another defendant named Lin Feng were attempting to bribe IRS agents to strip the tax-exempt status from a Falun Gong group, an exercise in China’s campaign of transnational repression.
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