Welcome back to China Uncensored,
I'm Chris Chappell.
Suave, cultured, international man of mystery.
No, I'm not talking about Bond, James Bond.
Meet Chinese billionaire Guo Wengui,
also known as Miles Kwok
Ok, I know that image looks like something we did to just make fun of him.
But just to be clear,
Guo photoshopped his own face onto Daniel Craig's body,
and then posted it on Twitter.
I am NOT making this up.
So at first glance, Guo seems like your average Twitter bro,
posting thirsty workout selfies,
taking vertical video of his small dog,
and thanking his social media followers
with the tragic overuse
of both the raised fist and the prayer hands emojis.
Yes, Guo Wengui is truly... 'hashtag blessed'.
He lives in a 67 million dollar apartment in Manhattan,
which I assume means it has at least two full-size closets.
He's a member of the exclusive Mark's club in London's prestigious Mayfair district.
He's also a member of Donald Trump's exclusive Mar-a-Lago club
in America's prestigious Florida.
Guo Wengui originally made his money in real estate.
He fled China in 2015
after his relationship with Chinese Communist Party officials soured.
He kept a low profile
until he resurfaced in March this year.
Then he began giving out lengthy interviews to Chinese media
telling fantastical stories of corruption
in the highest ranks of the Chinese Communist Party,
and making himself out to be an anti-corruption hero.
He said he's willing to spill the beans,
to "protect my life, protect my money, and get my revenge."
He also said it gave him an excuse to
"Photoshop myself in more exciting and dramatic ways."
Guo said that his information would help Xi Jingping
and Wang Qishan's anti-corruption efforts.
Whoa, Xi Jingping, Wang Qishan,
anti-corruption campaign?
I think it's time for a recap of everyone's favorite soap opera
about high-level power struggles within the China Communist Party.
Previously on General Hostility.
Current leader Xi Jinping is engaged in a life-or-death political struggle
with former leader Jiang Zemin.
Xi has launched a national campaign to crackdown on corruption .
But, his real target
is deflated toad Jiang Zemin and his allies.
But Xi can't do it alone.
Butch Cassidy needed the Sundance Kid,
Winnie the Pooh needed Piglet,
who will be Xi Jingping loyal sidekick
going in together with honey pots blazing?
It's Wang Qishan,
[...] before picture and Xi Jinping's anti-corruption czar.
Together they punished more than a million corrupt party officials.
But the Jiang faction is putting up a fight,
they're trying to destroy Xi Jinping and Wang Qishan first.
Will Xi and Wang take down the evils Jiang
before Jiang destroys them?
Find out after this explanatory break.
Okay, so billionaire Guo Wengui said he wanted to help
Xi Jingping and Wang Qishan's anti-corruption efforts
by exposing corrupt individuals.
He also promised to reveal more as the months went on
as in not all at once but definitely later.
What's his reason for doling out information slowly?
"To let the bullets fly for a little while."
Okay, you got me, we photoshopped that one.
Anyway, this is an odd strategy if your goal is to...
you know, actually make change in China.
But more on that later.
Guo first got tangled up in the anti-corruption campaign in 2014
when he accused this guy, Li You,
of insider trading.
Thanks in part to Guo's help,
Li was jailed.
Li You had links to former Chinese leader Jiang Zemin.
So, it seems that by exposing Li,
Guo has helped Xi in his battle against Jiang.
But, it turns out Li You was Guo's former business partner turned rival.
And this was actually just part of the whole
"get my revenge thing" Guo talked about earlier.
Chinese politics is like 'House of Cards'.
In fact, Wang Qishan, Xi's anti-corruption czar
is reportedly a big fan of the show.
It's the only thing that can make him smile,
Wang probably watches it for stress relief.
Look at how relaxing and uncomplicated American corruption is.
Plus, he can't resist Frank Underwood southern charm,
no one can.
Now as you can imagine, anyone navigating that environment of political intrigue
can sometimes say one thing andmean another.
For example, while it seems that
Guo Wengui is supporting Xi Jingping
and his anti-corruption campaign.
Well, Guo has actually secretly been supporting Jiang Zemin.
Listen to this,
"Over the past 20-30 years, without Jiang Zemin, China couldn't achieve today's accomplishments..."
"In China today, Jiang Zemin holds 80% of the power."
What's Guo said is not exactly true,
I mean it is true that without Jiang Zemin,
China couldn't have achieved certain accomplishments.
Like spending billions of dollars to build labor camps
and selling the organs of innocent Chinese people.
But what's weirder is his "Jiang holds 80% of the power" statement.
If that were true,
this guy would be China's leader instead of Xi Jinping.
Instead, he was thrown in prison.
But, Guo didn't say that as a fact,
he said it as a statement of support.
It's like when you're listening to the radio and you say:
"Dude, that was the best song ever."
What you really mean is: "I liked that song a lot".
Because objectively, the best song ever
is the theme of Ducktales
Woo-oohs.
Anyway, Guo's comment is one way China observers can see
how he's actually on the side of Jiang Zemin political faction.
Now, Guo has denied this of course.
But Guo definitely has close ties with a lot of Jiang's people.
According to The Epoch Times,
Guo is closed to disgraced spy chief Ma Jian.
Ma Jian worked closely with Jiang Zemin faction
that is before Ma Jian was arrested in Xi Jinping's anti-corruption campaign
for taking thirty million dollars in bribes.
And then, he started squealing on Guo.
So what kind of relationship does a Chinese billionaire businessman
have with Jiang Zemin's former spy chief Ma Jian?
Well,
let me tell you a little story about how business is done in China.
Before Ma Jian was sent to jail,
he helped Guo Wengui obtain an expensive piece of real estate in Beijing.
This is Pangu Plaza,
which looks like the inspiration for this weird building in F City.
Anyway,
Pangu Plaza has a high-end hotel
and three luxury housing complexes.
A single flat will cost you 16 million dollars.
But in 2006, it was called Morgan Plaza
and Guo Wengui wanted to develop it.
Instead Beijing's vice mayor, at the time, Liu Zhihua,
gave the contract to a friend.
Vice mayor Liu is such a jerk.
But fortunately for Guo,
vice-mayor Liu had a secret mistress in Hong Kong.
How do I know this?
Because Gui Wengui, with the help of Ma Jian,
placed a hidden camera in his room
and caught Liu and his mistress 'in the act'.
They used the tape along with other evidence of corruption
to get Liu a suspended death sentence,
which usually means 'life in prison'
Then suddenly, Guo's company was able to buy Morgan Plaza
and turn it into what it is today.
And Ma Jian was rumored to have been given one of the condo units.
So Guo Wengui colluded with China's spy chief
to take down Beijing's vice mayor
so he could develop a piece of real estate.
And in a recent Communist Party style confession,
Ma Jian says he worked in alliance with Guo Wengui
over the course of six years,
where Guo gave him millions of dollars in gifts,
in exchange for Ma,
using China's spy apparatus
to help Guo with his business deals.
Dangerous and illegal?
Absolutely!
But also a character for a guy who again posts this to Twitter.
But anyway,
because of Xi Jinping's anti-corruption campaign,
Ma Jian is now in jail.
In fact, a lot of people closed to Guo Wengui
have been getting hit in the anti-corruption campaign lately.
And it seems like Xi Jinping
may be going after Guo himself.
So, despite Guo making himself out to be a hero
exposing corrupt officials.
He's probably not really a supporter of Xi Jinping's anti-corruption campaign.
In fact,
Guo is now going after the key person he knows
can hurt Xi's anti-corruption campaign the most.
Anti-corruption czar, Wang Qishan,
who looks like he wants to retire soon.
In fact, he was originally supposed to retire this November.
After the 19th National People's Congress,
but Xi Jinping wants to keep him right where he is
for five more years
so he can keep purging Jiang Zemin and his toady's.
But Guo wants to make Wang Qishan look corrupt,
so it would become politically impossible
for Xi Jinping to keep him on
as the anti-corruption czar.
And Xi Jinping doesn't have any replacement
that's anywhere near as capable.
So Guo has launched a smear campaign at Wang Qishan,
throwing shade on him with blurry conspiracy type diagrams on Twitter.
And if that's too complicated to follow,
he also posted a badly Photoshop image of Wang as the Joker.
Also as Leonardo DiCaprio in Titanic.
He's also been making unsubstantiated claims
that "Wang's extended family has a mass staggering wealth
through a web of companies,"
which, to be fair, sounds like every official in China.
Guo has also said that an Australian woman
is actually Wang's illegitimate daughter.
She wasn't too happy about that by the way.
Then Guo goes on a live interview on Voice of America
and starts making more unsubstantiated claims attacking Wang.
so much so that the host had to eventually cut him off.
Wang Qishan's nephew holds shares in Hainan Airlines
What Guo Wengui said is only from his sources.
We can't verify any of that.
Yao Qing is the key person in Wang and Yao's family.
And he was also a shareholder in Hainan Airlines.
Everyone seems to know this.
We can't verify any of that information.
He keeps threatening my family,
this is why I want to spill Wang's secret directly.
Let's stop here for today.
So Guo Wengui's goal is to on the one hand
praised Jiang Zemin,
and on the other hand,
create doubts about Wang Qishan,
and weekend Wang so much
that Xi can't keep using him to carry out his anti-corruption campaign.
And in terms of the anti-corruption campaign,
Xi without Wang is like Inspector Gadget without Brain
Pooh without Piglet, me without Shelley.
Hey, who wrote this?
The point is, Piglet is a former banker and economist.
And let's say, probably knows a bit about corruption himself.
And so Piglet is really the only one
who can carry out Pooh anti-corruption campaign effectively.
Plus, Piglet already knows where the bodies are buried.
I believe that was the plot of the House at Pooh Corner.
Anyway, the anti-corruption campaign was already gunning for Guo.
And now that he's shooting his mouth off everywhere,
several of his associates are being investigated.
The Chinese Foreign Ministry is calling him a criminal,
and China even got Interpol to issue a red notice for his arrest.
And that VOA interview we showed earlier,
was threatened by China's foreign ministry
which said that it "would disturb the 19th Communist Party Congress"
which matches up with worries that
Xi wouldn't be able to keep Wang on after the Congress.
Now, I'm not saying Wang Qishan or his family isn't corrupt.
Much of what Guo says is impossible to verify.
I'm just saying that when Guo Wengui says things to undermine Wang,
well, that's just Guo Wengui playing House of Cards.
And Guo's cards are definitely in Jiang deck.
We'll have to wait for the Party Congress in November this year
to really know if Guo has been successful or not.
So, to sum up.
Previously on General Hostility.
Rich jetsetter and workout enthusiasts Guo Wengui
is the talk of the town.
But the closets of his multi-million dollar apartment
overlooking Central Park
are full of secrets.
Guo has a shady past with former spy chief
and current prison confessor Ma Jian.
And both are connected with Xi Jingping fake evil twin
Jiang Zemin.
As part of Jiang sneaky plan
to stop Xi Jinping's anti-corruption campaign,
Guo has set his sights on Xi's sad sidekick Wang Qishan.
Will Guo get away with impugning Wang's honor?
Will Xi be forced to betray his loyal ally?
Find out next time on General Hostility.
So will our self-styled James Bond succeed?
Or have we been watching another movie all along?
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Hello, Guo Wengui?
You love the episode?
Oh you were being sarcastic.
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you could have seen this full-length episode
with other segments and a devastating amount of jokes last week.
Yes, yes, that's right.
Okay, I'll see you at Mar-a-Lago.
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