MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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The Billionaire Gadfly in Exile Who Stared Down Beijing
By artappraiser on Wed, 05/31/2017 - 1:01am |Michael Forsythe/Alexandra Stevenson@NYTimes [also Forbes - PP]
The biggest political story in China this year isn’t in Beijing. It isn’t even in China. It’s centered at a $68 million apartment overlooking Central Park in Manhattan.
That’s where Guo Wengui, a billionaire in self-imposed exile, has hurled political grenades at the Chinese Communist Party for months, accusing senior leaders of graft using Twitter as his loudspeaker. He escalated his attack by claiming that members of the family of China’s second most powerful official, who oversees the country’s anticorruption effort, secretly own a large stake in a major Chinese conglomerate.
The Chinese government responded by unleashing the state-controlled media to enumerate Mr. Guo’s alleged frauds, and asking Interpol to put out a global warrant for his arrest.
But then something unexpected happened. China stood down [....]
URL:
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/30/world/asia/china-guo-wengui.html
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