An ICIJ investigation of 4.8 million leaked records found that the world’s largest bank, ICBC, served companies linked to oligarchs, authoritarian regimes and people accused of corruption and other crimes.
After Huawei was indicted over alleged Iran sanctions violations, ICBC moved $1.3 billion in “emergency cash” for Huawei from London to China, without first informing its own financial-crime team.
And ICBC is only one pillar of the CCP-controlled banking system.
When state power, corporate power and national wealth converge, the pressure points become clear: Chinese banks. Their access to global finance. And the kleptocrats at the top.
BANNON: Xi is the most nationalistic guy in the world right now and we always have to remember that. He wants his legacy to be China as the ultimate hegemon in East Asia, the beginning of a hegemon across Central Asia, and not just the rise of China, but China as dominant over the USA.
🚨 More than 100 students and faculty from ten American universities—including Harvard, Columbia and the University of Chicago—just attended a briefing with a senior Chinese Communist Party official.
On September 3, CCP International Department Vice Minister Lu Kang met the group in Qufu, China.
The agenda included Beijing’s Five-Year Plan and its global foreign-policy initiatives.
The Party’s readout says Lu wanted the visitors to develop:
“a true, multidimensional and comprehensive understanding of China”
It then attributes this assessment to the American students:
“China’s development achievements have attracted worldwide attention.”
And says they expressed willingness to:
“contribute their youthful energy”
…to promoting U.S.–China relations.
Those are claims published by the Chinese Communist Party about its own outreach to people from American universities.
The event’s named organizers were the China NGO Network for International Exchanges and the Chinese Association for International Understanding.
The CCP identifies prominent American universities and explicitly includes faculty among the participants—but names none of those professors.
Harvard, Columbia and the University of Chicago should release their participants’ roles and explain how this visit was arranged.
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