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Charlie Skelton

China haunts Bilderberg talks as usual suspects plot world domination

United States China Donald Trump Eric Schmidt Peter Thiel Palantir JD Vance Helsing Alex Karp Stockholm
a man in a suit walks into a building
Sweden’s prime minister Ulf Kristersson arrives at the Grand Hotel during the Bilderberg meeting in Stockholm. Photograph: Christine Olsson/TT/Shutterstock

Deep within the glittering bowels of Stockholm’s fanciest hotel, grave ruminations on the future of the world are taking place.

A heady throng of tech billionaires, ministers, corporate titans and the king of the Netherlands have convened in Sweden for the 71st Bilderberg meeting – the publicity-shy annual policy conference that has long sustained conspiracy theorists – hosted this year by the fabulously wealthy Wallenberg family.

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