Who is Miles Guo?
Chinese intelligence, Tony Blair, Steve Bannon, GETTR and more
Rounding the Earth
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Rapidfire news stories this week:
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Don Lemon fired from CNN
Matthew Evans-Cockle: Paragons of Ethical Medicine Attacked by the College of Physicians and Surgeons of BC
Who is Miles Guo?
Indeed, this is the question of the day. A cursory glance at the top few Google News entries will paint a picture of Miles Guo, a dissident Chinese billionaire in exile, whose efforts to combat the Chinese Communist Party within the United States have led to his arrest on grounds of defrauding his supporters with various “investment opportunities.”
It’s a convenient and well-packaged profile, ripe to be exploited by both sides of a left-right political divide to either rip into his allies in the Trump camp, or elevate Guo as the next figurehead of a societal revolution.
Introduction
In last week’s episode of Rounding the News, we explored the ongoing story surrounding the so-called “secret Chinese police stations” popping up around the world. This culminated in the April 17 arrest of two New York residents, formally accused by state and federal agencies of working on behalf of China’s Ministry of Public Security.
If you haven’t yet read or watched the story, you can do so here:
The crux of my analysis was that all sides of the story are biased in some form, with larger geopolitical machinations leading both the United States and Chinese government to act as “unreliable narrators.” This is especially true of the non-governmental organization (NGO) called Safeguard Defenders, whose September 2022 report was the basis for all the hubbub in the first place, but whose own agenda is thrown into question by its apparent ties to the American intelligence community.
China’s role in the United States and the rest of the Western world is unclear, shrouded by propaganda from both sides. With this in mind, it may be helpful to zoom out slightly and take stock on the other pieces on the game board.
I concluded my previous report with a case study of a New York-based rapped named DVS 7.0, who very recently went semi-viral for his strongly-worded comments to U.S. Representative Adam Schiff and subsequent handcuffing.
Far from an isolated incident of political dissidence, DVS appeared to be attending the New York event — the House Judiciary Committee’s meeting on crime — on behalf of a larger movement under the unifying message of #FreeMilesGuo. DVS had recently released a song under the same name, and his Twitter feed is full of supportive comments from a veritable swarm of users bearing similar characteristics; Chinese characters in their names, allusions to something called the New Federal State of China, and the hashtag #FreeMilesGuo.
On first glance, this seems to be a movement largely aligned with core principles of other groups of likeminded people in the “freedom movement.” There are strong assertions of defeating the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), liberating minority groups from oppression including the Uyghurs, protection of the island nation of Taiwan from Chinese military invasion, corruption of the United States government through the influence of Chinese money, and more generally, the creation of a world where all peoples are free to be who they are without fear of totalitarian backlash. They also loudly question the origins of SARS-CoV-2 and warn that the available COVID-19 genetic vaccines are not safe (to put it mildly).
But as we’ve explored at length in various Rounding the Earth podcasts and articles, anytime a movement of ideal focuses itself around any one individual, there is reason to be very suspicious. That’s clearly the case here; whatever is going on around this particular anti-CCP movement is very much centred on this Miles Guo character. That doesn’t automatically mean that the values articulated by the movement are bad or counterproductive unto themselves. On the contrary, if there were to be an attempt to rally real dissidents under an umbrella for nefarious purposes, a necessary step would be to adopt (perhaps “borrow” or “appropriate”) the flagship cause in order to mask the true intention of an operation.
As I’ve concluded about the COVID-19 crisis, all a bad actor needs to do in order to manipulate large groups of people is to tap into their genuine good nature.
I invite you along a journey of learning.
Many names and a coloured past
Miles Guo is just one name used by the man officially named Guo Wengui. His other names used in various contexts are Ho Wan Kwok, Miles Kwok, Brother Seven, Guo Haoyun and The Principal.1 As summarized by a profile in Business Insider, “[m]uch of his background is still shrouded in mystery and Guo's exact purpose and loyalties are the subject of speculation and conspiracy theories.”2
Guo was born to an impoverished family in China’s Jilin province. He then moved to the farming village of Xicaoying in Shandong province, growing up there with his seven siblings.3 This is allegedly where the name "Brother Seven" came from, being the seventh son born in the family.4
According to the New Yorker, Guo dropped out of school at age 13 to find work selling clothes and electronics.5
First arrest
He was arrested and put in jail in 1989 on grounds that are not entirely clear. According to Guo, this was the result of his support for students participating in “pro-democracy protests in Tiananmen Square” which occurred at that time.6 This particular version of events is not reflected in court documents, however, with the official story being that Guo was arrested one week before the protests began, on charges of defrauding investors in a "local oil scheme."
Career
After his release, in 1992, Guo took a job with a Hong Kong-based businesswoman named Xia Ping. According to an investigation published in Nikkei Asia:
In 1993, Xia's Hong Kong Lotus Love International Group set up a joint venture with Guo called Zhengzhou Yuda Property. Guo was named vice chairman and general manager.
Through Zhengzhou Yuda Property, Guo oversaw the construction of Zhengzhou’s tallest building, the Yuda International Trade Centre.7
Guo also reportedly ran a company called Big Boss Furniture.8 But in 2002, he relocated to Beijing to further expand his burgeoning real estate empire. He purchased two parcels of land in northern Beijing right beside the then-future site of the 2008 Summer Olympics.
According to Nikkei Asia, “[i]n October 2005, [Beijing]'s land bureau revoked Guo's company's rights to the Olympic Park plot, saying the company failed to pay in full for the property.” This led to Guo attempting to lobby government officials to help rescue his development project for the lucrative property. Specifically, he approached then-vice-mayor Liu Zhihua, who was in charge of projects surrounding the Olympics. He refused to help, selling the plot back to Beijing Capital Group (a state-run real estate firm).
But two weeks later, the vice-mayor was detained alongside BCG chairman Liu Xiaoguang, allegedly based on a report submitted to the Chinese government by Guo accusing the vice-mayor of corruption. The report is said to have contained sexual blackmail material, which was allegedly provided to Guo by a Chinese “spymaster” named Ma Jian. Jian was appointed Vice Minister of State Security in 2006 after having "worked at the spy agency for more than 30 years," and has been described as “one of the mainland's top spy chiefs.”9
With the plot of land safely back in Guo’s hands and with newly-issued building permits, Guo launched construction of Pangu Plaza. The building was crafted in the shape of the Olympic torch.
This incident is cited as one of the first known examples of Guo working directly with Chinese military intelligence agencies to achieve favourable outcomes by unsavoury means.
Building powerful relationships
Guo reportedly travelled several times to meet the Dalai Lama on behalf of China's Ministry of State Security, now led in part by his ally Ma Jian.10 There are several pictures corroborating this fact, with the pair seeming to have a friendly relationship. Of course, given the current capabilities to generate super-realistic images with AI tools, these must be considered with a healthy skepticism.11 On the other hand, it doesn't appear that this relationship is in question in any reporting of Guo's past.
Shortly after the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, Guo invited Orville Schell, Director of the Center on U.S.-China Relations at the Asia Society, for a dinner at the Pangu Plaza. He also reportedly had dinners with former Secretaries of State Henry Kissinger and George Shultz, and met with Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un on a trip to North Korea.12
Another powerful ally Guo courted was former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, a relationship that first began in 2008 (or possibly earlier, depending on who you ask).13 In 2009, Guo purchased five thousand copies of Cherie Blair's autobiography and donated to Blair's various charities.14
In or around 2013, Guo paid for Blair and himself to fly out to meet members of the Abu Dhabi Royal Family in the United Arab Emirates, including Crown Prince Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan. They agreed to give Guo $3 billion to fund an attempt to "take control of China’s second-largest brokerage house, Haitong Securities.15 At some point, Guo was also issued a passport from the UAE which granted him certain diplomatic protections. In December 2014, Guo and the Abu Dhabi Royal Family created the ACA Investment Fund.16
Operation Fox Hunt and Sky Net
In June 2014, the Chinese government launched Operation Fox Hunt, described by CNN as “an international anti-corruption campaign targeting Chinese fugitives - often former officials or rich individuals suspected of economic crimes.”17 They followed up by launching the similar and larger Operation Sky Net in March 2015.18
Defecting from China
In late 2014, Guo accused a rival named Li You of corruption. The conflict escalated into public view, bringing scrutiny onto Guo's relationship with the Chinese government and intelligence apparatus. On January 16, 2015, the Communist Party of China announced that Guo's intelligence colleague Ma Jian was under investigation. News reports emerged in March 2015 alluding to his and Jian’s collaborations in “surveillance, blackmail, and political influence to amass fortunes and evade scrutiny.”
Despite initially denying reports of intelligence ties, Guo later acknowledged that he was affiliated in some form with the Ministry of State Security in China, completing tasks for the agency under the codename “Wu Nan.”
Guo fled to London, England via Hong Kong, eventually landing in New York City.
In the winter of 2015, Guo purchased a $68 million penthouse suite at the Sherry-Netherland tower in the Upper East Side of New York City — in cash, no less. He reportedly provided a reference letter from UBS Bank and a personal recommendation from Tony Blair.19
After moving into the penthouse, he purchased a $43 million yacht named the Lady May. He became a member of Mar-A-Lago, the Florida resort owned by then-candidate Donald Trump. Trump had announced his run for President of the United States just six months prior.20
Engaging U.S. intelligence
No stranger to the game of national intelligence, Guo engaged with both the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), offering to provide information on the inner workings of the Chinese government. In the New Yorker’s long profile on Guo, the authors describe the FBI as being more enthusiastic about working with him than was the CIA.
At this point, it is established that Guo has worked on behalf of both Chinese and American intelligence. He is a double agent, but it’s not clear on whose behalf he truly operates. “If you ask ten different F.B.I. and C.I.A. people about Miles, you’re going to get seven different answers,” says a former FBI official in The New Yorker.
Guo reportedly attempted to hire Jeh Johnson, former Secretary of the United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS), as his lawyer. Johnson considered the offer, but declined.
In 2016, Chinese authorities seized ownership of Guo's Pangu Plaza tower. According to CNN, a court in Beijing later listed it for sale on Alibaba, selling it “for just under 5.19 billion yuan,” equivalent to $734 million USD.21
Activism and propaganda
In January 2017, Guo created an account on Twitter and began conducting interviews in which he accused Chinese leaders of corruption. One target in particular was Wang Qishan, who sued Guo for defamation in response. One such interview was to be conducted with the Mandarin-language arm of Voice of America (VOA).22 Notably, Voice of America is yet another outlet in the network run by the United States Agency for Global Media, an agency of the United States government.23
On April 17, 2017, at the request of the Chinese government, Interpol issued a “red notice,” interpreted by some to be an international warrant for his arrest.24 This led to the Voice of America interview being cancelled due to pressure from China's Foreign Ministry.
Then in May 2017, four agents with China’s Ministry of State Security visited Guo at his penthouse. According to the Wall Street Journal, the several-hour-long meeting saw the agents ask Guo to cease his activism and return back to China.25 ProPublica referenced this incident as an example of the Chinese government’s operations under Operations Fox Hunt and Sky Net.26
Contact with the Trump camp
In June 2017, vice-minister of public security Sun Lijun made contact with Steve Wynn, finance chair of the Republican National Committee (RNC). Sun asked for assistance in returning Guo to China, and Wynn reportedly agreed to raise the issue with President Trump.
From The New Yorker:
In late June, at a dinner in Washington, Wynn conveyed the request and gave Trump’s secretary a packet that included the Interpol notice, press reports, and copies of Guo’s passport.
Trump did indeed see the packet, but was dissuaded from pursuing the matter further by H.R. McMaster, who was serving as National Security Advisor.
Also present was chief strategist Steve Bannon, who retrieved the packet and decided he didn’t want Guo to be extradited.
Bannon and Guo
It’s this relationship between Steve Bannon and Guo that start to bring this story closer to home that most might be comfortable with. Let’s look at how this pair started their mini-media empire and all the ways in which it interacts with the larger “medical freedom movement.”
In August 2017, Guo met with Steve Bannon at the Hay-Adams Hotel in Washington, D.C. In August 2018, Bannon signed a year-long deal with Guo Media for consulting services in exchange for $1 million.27
The first archives of the now-defunct Guo Media website date back to January 1st, 2018.28 On April 24, 2018, a patent application was filed for the name GUO.MEDIA,29 subsequently assigned to a new company called Saraca Media Group which itself was formed in May 2018. Guo's son, Qiang Guo, headed up this new company.30
Saraca Media Group went on to found a number of subsidiaries and register further trademarks for ventures, including variations of Guo’s own name:31
Everything Is Just Beginning
GLive
GNews
GPost
GTV
Guo Media
Guo Wengui
Guo.Media
Miles Gwo
Miles Kwok
Rule of Law Foundation + Society
On November 20, 2018, Guo and Bannon launched the Rule of Law Foundation and the Rule of Law Society.32 Bannon served as chair of the Society.33 As for the Foundation, the chairman position was filled by a gentleman named Kyle Bass. Bass’ claims to fame include his successful shorting of the housing market during the 2008 financial crisis (as depicted in “The Big Short”) and his ventures in the business of carbon credits.3435 He also serves alongside Bannon on the Committee on the Present Danger: China, and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR).3637
GTV Media Group
In April 2020, Guo and Bannon co-founded GTV Media Group.38 Bass served as a board member for this venture, as well.39
New Federal State of China
On June 4, 2020, Guo and Bannon live-streamed an announcement of the launch of the New Federal State of China.40 The pair chose to hold the event on Guo's yacht off the coast of New York City, right in front of the highly symbolic Statue of Liberty.
A glance at NFSC’s Wikipedia page suggests there is some confusion as to what the organization actually is — is it a lobbying group, a political movement, or something else? It describes itself as a government in exile whose stated intention is to overthrow the Chinese Communist Party.41
The organization is supported by the Rule of Law Foundation and the Rule of Law Society, and a separate entity called the Himalaya Supervisory Organization was created in order to govern an associated network of activists called the Himalaya Farms Network.42
In May 2021, a New Zealand-based channel called Counterspin Media launched. It was originally hosted on GTV, and the background of the first video displays the flag of the New Federal State of China.43 Subsequent videos continue the overt promotion of the NFSC. Describing itself as "New Zealand's Media Revolution," Counterspin has been very active in coverage of issues related to COVID-19, particularly the mass-vaccination program and authoritarian public health response in NZ.
GETTR
Guo was an early investor in GETTR through a “family foundation.”44 GETTR went live on July 4, 2021, founded by former Trump aide Jason Miller.45 Notice that GETTR's logo is in the shape of the Olympic torch - the same design of Guo's signature Pangu Plaza building. Notably, the launch of the New Federal State of China was held in front of the Statue of Liberty, which depicts a woman holding a torch nearly identical to the others.
Guo’s influence over GETTR is explored out in an article published by The Washington Post on March 26, 2023.46
[Former GETTR employees allegedly] said the arrested expatriate, Guo Wengui, and his longtime money manager, William Je, called the shots at the company while Donald Trump senior adviser Jason Miller was its chief executive and public face.
Guo was known to have been a Gettr investor, but his dominant financing role and ability to influence hiring and content decisions at the platform have not previously been reported.
Miller has said previously that Guo invested in Gettr indirectly through a family foundation and that an international fund was another part-owner. But two former Gettr employees told The Post that Miller told them that the international fund was Hamilton Investment Management, where Je is founder and chief executive.
Further substantiating Guo’s leading role at GETTR is the fact that the social media company had $2.8 million seized in September 2022 as part of an indictment against Guo and William Je.47
So too did Hamilton Investment Management, Je’s firm located in the Cayman and British Virgin Islands.48 Interestingly, some of the $305 million seized by the government in in September was held at Silvergate Bank; the “crypto-friendly” bank that was recently caught up in the panic following Silicon Valley Bank’s collapse, with Silvergate itself announcing it was closing down just under two months ago.49
In November 2021, Guo appeared in a music video promoting Himalaya Coin, the native token of cryptocurrency exchange Himalaya Exchange, with which Guo had a business relationship.5051 He shared a quote from Bannon describing the success of the new coin as “monumental” on GETTR.52
Notably, Himalaya Exchange held its funds (which were also seized) in a Puerto Rico-based bank called FV Bank, whose business is focused on cryptocurrency and blockchain services, with recent activity in the digital identification space.53
Another related business is the Himalaya Federal Reserve, which issued something called “GCoin”.54
Speaking of crypto, GETTR users (of which I am one) will note that the platform is right now promoting something called GETTR Coin, requiring users to either be highly influential on other platforms (20,000+ followers) or provide government issued identification in order to achieve “verification.”
GETTR is also promoting a new feature called GTok, a rather plain clone of the controversial TikTok.
While the naming convention is clearly based on GETTR’s own branding, it continues a line of brands shaped after Guo including G|CLUBS, G|Fashion and G | Music.
The latter of the three appears to be how rapper DVS 7.0 is connected to the empire.55 Guo himself is listed as an artist under the G | Music, which advertises the use of GETTR, GETTR coin, Hcoin, HDO and non-fungible tokens (NFT) to “pursue freedom and equality through music.”56
G|Fashion is a clothing brand and company owned by Guo. It is the “fashion counterpart” to G|CLUBS.57 Sean Bannon, nephew of Steve, is listed as Chief Operating Officer of the venture in a patent filing dated September 10, 2020.58 The firm was initially represented by Rubenstein Public Relations, who has also represented COVID-19 vaccine developer Johnson & Johnson.59
G|CLUBS is purportedly a membership organization based in Puerto Rico.60 According to court documents, it is functionally controlled by Guo and William Je, despite neither man holding a formal position with the company.
A sprawling network
There’s so much to go through with Guo, and I simply must discipline myself at this point in order to get to the most important part for today.
Bannon’s War Room
Steve Bannon’s War Room has been a significant platform for dissident voices over the course of the COVID-19 “pandemic” era. Given Bannon and Miles Guo’s close partnership on a range of ventures, it stands to reason that Guo’s proximity would lead to at least some level of influence over Bannon’s approach to his pandemic coverage. According to Vox, the theme song for War Room is “Take Down The CCP”, performed by Guo.61
It’s not clear to me at this point that War Room is funded by Guo. But with this strange network of organizations, many of which now facing criminal sanctions as Guo sits in jail, it’s tremendously difficult to track what the true intentions are behind such operations. The corporate structure (or lack thereof) reminds me of the way the FTX/Alameda Research empire was set up, with over 100 separate entities obscuring the scope of the companies’ activities worldwide.
Note that Bannon isn’t the only major player operating under the War Room umbrella. Journalist Naomi Wolf of the Daily Clout is partnered with Bannon’s network for their highly-publicized “Pfizer Documents Analysis,” based on the court-ordered disclosures secured by Public Health and Medical Professionals for Transparency.
And thus, once again, I end this week’s episode by urging caution. Just because Guo is in jail does not necessarily mean his is guilty of the crimes he is alleged to have commit. It is notable that at this point, both the United States government and the Chinese government have marked him as a criminal. But what does Guo stand for? Under which flag is he calling on his followers to gather?
And finally, what does it mean to be part of a “movement”?
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Great research work again.
So many questions, as usual.
How does someone leave prison and is suddenly a big real estate guy? Maybe he was in official training during his "prison" time.
Why does Puerto Rico keep popping up on the radar? Mystery for Inspector Sturgess.
Damn, son!
Read this whole article to wind up in a cliffhanger?!