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Steve Bannon and a Fugitive Billionaire Guo Wengui Target a Common Enemy: China - As tensions between the US & China grow "the two men are hoping to stoke them even further, by effectively calling for the overthrow of Beijing’s leadership" HT @USseriously
nytimes.com/2018/12/04/bus…
A few weeks ago in Manhattan Steve Bannon and Guo Wengui held a news conference "organized to announce plans to set up a $100 million fund to investigate corruption and aid people they deem victims of Chinese government persecution."
nytimes.com/2018/12/04/bus…
Bannon said the new China-related fund he will head, without pay, will gather evidence, share it with authorities—in the US and elsewhere—and publish it in the media & will target Wall St banks & law firms, which he says are complicit in China’s misdeeds
nytimes.com/2018/12/04/bus…
Meanwhile last week business partners of ex-RNC finance chair and Trump associate Elliott Broidy were charged related to Guo Wengui & Broidy had lobbied the WH to have the US return Guo to China - Broidy was hoping to earn tens of millions for his work
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