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Nick Aspinwall, James Palmer

Guo Wengui Is Sending Mobs After Chinese Dissidents

Former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon (right) greets fugitive Chinese billionaire Guo Wengui in France on July 3, 2018. Don Emmert/AFP via Getty Images

A prominent Chinese dissident pulls his children from school and flees his Texas home. A California-based democracy activist faces days of threats and harassment from protesters gathered in his driveway. Both were targets on a hit list of dissidents released last month by the exiled Chinese businessman Guo Wengui, who has claimed without evidence they are spies from the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).

“Let’s eliminate traitors in the world,” a cigar-wielding Guo told his followers in a video posted online last month. “Let’s get started, let’s finish with these traitors first.”

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