SoCal Mayor Eileen Wang’s secret agent case is just the latest in China’s ‘nefarious long game’ to control California and U.S. politics, First Assistant U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli told The California Post. via REUTERS Wang resigned from mayor of the San Gabriel Valley city of Arcadia on Monday, the same day federal prosecutors unsealed her guilty plea deal for acting as a secret agent of the People’s Republic of China. Essayli said Wang’s rise in SoCal politics reflects China’s desire to further its interests by planting its assets in local government, with hopes that that its PRC loyalists may grow their political careers and rise to high office, where they can do real damage. The prosecution of Chinese secret agent and former Arcadia Mayor Eilleen Wang is just one of several similar cases. AP The PRC plays “the long game to get people into office,” said federal prosecutor Bill Essayli.…