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发帖数: 452 | 1 Exiled Chinese billionaire blasts 'kleptocracy' running China, warns of spy
infiltration in US as his home country seeks his arrest
A controversial Chinese billionaire in self-imposed exile blasted on
Thursday what he said was a small clique of corrupt "kleptocrats" running
China — as he also warned of a wave of Chinese spies being dispatched to
the United States in recent months.
"What they're doing is against humanity," said Guo Wengui, during an
appearance at the National Press Club in Washington, two days after a
previously scheduled appearance at a think tank in the same city was
postponed due to what he called heavy pressure from the Chinese government.
"What the U.S. ought to do is take action, instead of just talking to the
Chinese kleptocracy," Guo said through a translator.
"They are just a tiny group of Mafia, pure and simple," said Guo, a real-
estate magnate also known as Miles Kwok, who lives in a $68 million
apartment in New York City.
"I would like all the members of the Chinese Communist Party to wake up and
say no to this ruling clique."
Guo said he was aware of multiple initiatives by that clique in China to
increase the number of spies in the U.S. and "to weaken the United States,
to bring about turmoil in the United States and to ... decimate the United
States."
"These plans pose great threats to the American people and their property,"
Guo said.
He claimed those efforts are "100 times, or even 1,000 times" as potentially
damaging as the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks.
Guo's appearance in Washington was just the latest in a recent flurry of
controversies surrounding the real estate magnate, who fled to the United
States in 2015 after reportedly learning a security official he had ties
with was being targeted by an anticorruption campaign.
Guo has unloaded a barrage of allegations of corruption by people in the
highest levels of China's ruling Communist Party, which include claims that
the party's own head of anticorruption activities, Wang Qishan, has unclean
hands. Guo claims that Wang's family secretly controls one of the largest
conglomerates in China, the New York Times has reported.
In September, Guo applied for political asylum in the U.S. But he has kept
on making scathing and sometimes salacious attacks on social media against
his targets.
Last Saturday, Facebook reportedly blocked a profile with Guo's name and
removed another page linked to him. Facebook said it took that action after
confirming the pages included another person's identifiable personal
information, in violation of the platform's terms of service.
Guo's targets haven't taken his claims lying down.
In April, the Voice of America, which is operated by the U.S. government,
reportedly abruptly cut short an interview with Guo, and later put five of
its own journalists on administrative leave in connection with the interview
. The chief of VOA's Mandarin service told CNBC that Chinese authorities met
with VOA's Beijing correspondent and asked that the interview with Guo be
canceled.
Earlier this year, the Chinese government asked Interpol to issue an
international arrest warrant for Guo.
The Associated Press has reported that Chinese prosecutors are investigating
Guo "for at least 19 major criminal cases," which included allegedly
bribing intelligence officials, kidnapping, fraud and money laundering. In
August, AP revealed that Chinese authorities have asked for another Interpol
warrant for Guo, on a claim that he raped a 28-year-old former personal
assistant.
This week representatives of a leading corporate investigative firm provided
CNBC with a 12-page dossier on Guo detailing his use of social media to
make "allegations against women and his perceived enemies," and the fact
that he "has been subject to accusations of questionable business dealings
and the defrauding of business partners."
The dossier from the firm, which has been retained by a number of clients
around the world that have been targets of Guo, also noted "a series of
defamation suits" filed in New York City against the billionaire since April.
The suits were filed by, among others, Caixin Media; Soho China, a real
estate company; an affiliate of the major Chinese conglomerate HNA Group,
and China's vice minister of housing and urban rural development.
Guo told The Wall Street Journal for a story published Tuesday that he has
set up a $150 million legal war chest to fight the lawsuits.
"Nothing can stop me," Guo told the Journal.
But Guo was stopped hours later Tuesday by the Hudson Institute think tank
in Washington.
The Hudson Institute told Guo around noon that day that it was postponing
his planned appearance there on Wednesday, the Journal reported. Guo told
the paper that the think tank told him his appearance was "poorly timed."
CNBC has reached out for comment from the Hudson Institute.
So instead, Guo spoke to reporters Thursday at the National Press Club.
"You have caused quite a stir, not only in the United States but also in
China," said Bill Gertz, senior editor of the Washington Free Beacon, who
moderated the event.
Guo told reporters that he was jailed in China for 22 months after the
government's 1989 crackdown on pro-democracy students in Tiananmen Square,
whose efforts he supported with donations.
At around the same time, Guo said, "due to some kind of a trade dispute"
that his brother became involved with, police shot and killed his younger
brother, as his brother tried to shield Guo's wife from their bullets.
"The crime they gave me was so-called anti-revolutionary, and then they
change it to obstruction of justice and fraud. They said I engaged in fraud
and stole somebody's money," Guo said.
Years before, during the Cultural Revolution, Guo said his father was beaten
badly after being sent into internal exile, "my brothers were injured
physically ... and my mother had a nervous breakdown."
After his own release from jail, Guo returned to business, and began
building luxury hotels, he said.
"From then on, I set myself a goal, which I had in my heart, that was to
engage in revenge, not only for myself but for the whole of the Chinese
people," Guo said. "For the injustices and the injuries and the deaths they
have rendered to my younger brother, to my family members, to my brothers,
and to my cousins, and to promote and bring about justice and equality to
the whole country by overthrowing the existing system."
He said that after making $17 billion, his goal was "to engage in some kind
of revolutionary activities."
That $17 billion, he said, is now "all frozen by the Chinese government."
"Since I came abroad, I have also made a lot of money," Guo said. "I have
the best house, private aircraft, yacht, so as far as my personal welfare
and personal needs are concerned, I have no other needs that I really desire
."
"My only single goal ... is to change China," he said. | S*****n
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发帖数: 710 | 5 、应该搬到DC住么，搞定那些议员，得到川大接见才是真的 | S*****n
发帖数: 4185 | 6 这英文翻译得真好.......
【在 n****l 的大作中提到】
: 学习了。 kleptocrats - 盗国贼
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