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  • Commiejones@lemmygrad.ml
    17·
    8 days ago

    Cross-posted to c/Funny

    Face when some of the worst people on earth get fucked over by one of the worst people on earth.

  • cfgaussian@lemmygrad.ml
    13·
    8 days ago

    Some context:

    The irony in this story is overwhelming.

    The guy fled China in 2014 because he faced prison for fraud and corruption. No-one believed China, despite them issuing an Interpol Red Notice for his arrest. Western media and US officials universally presented him as a brave dissident unfairly harassed by the “CCP” in a “politically motivated” way (https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-39650877) because he was fighting corruption (see this VOA story for instance: https://www.voanews.com/a/prominent-communist-party-critic-guo-speaks-with-voa-china-service/3818031.html), a complete inversion of reality.

    Steve Bannon even started a nonprofit with him called the “Rule of Law Society.” The irony writes itself.

    Long story short and true to form, Miles Guo used his “dissident” credibility in the US to - guess what - defraud Americans of $1 billion.

    And here we are, 12 years afterwards, with US courts essentially concluding “yeah no, he is actually a crook, our bad.”

    Which makes it probably the most expensive fact-check in history: $1 billion of damage to verify what an Interpol Red Notice said a decade ago.

    I know I’ll sound like a broken record but this is yet another fantastic illustration that the kneejerk anti-China bias in Western media is actively harmful. When China says “careful, that guy is a dangerous crook” maybe, just maybe, it’s worth checking before branding him with a heroic “dissident” narrative that he can then use to rob your people’s life savings… Just a thought.

    Here is Vice with a puff piece on him:

    Also worth reminding that one of the persons who bought everything Guo was saying - to the extent he wrote an entire Foreign Affairs article as essentially a mouthpiece for Guo’s claims (https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/china/2017-07-05/leaks-lies-and-chinese-politics) - was Rush Doshi, who was Deputy Senior Director for China at the NSC in the Biden administration (and the author of the very intellectually dishonest book “The Long Game: China’s Grand Strategy to Displace American Order”).

    Really goes to show that in Washington, being wrong about China is never a career liability. He is literally the guy who was advising the White House on China.

    https://xcancel.com/RnaudBertrand/status/2071953654278701408