The Billionaire Who Knew Too Much (Paperback)

Sprache: Englisch

Verlag: Silent Thunder Press, 2025

1997624486 / 9781997624486

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Paperback. Secrets, Spies, and the Global War for TruthWhat happens when a Chinese tycoon turns against the system that made him?When Guo Wengui fled Beijing for a Manhattan penthouse, he carried more than billions. He carried secrets-about China's elite, their offshore fortunes, their hidden lovers, and the machinery of fear that holds it all together.From the start, Guo was both whistleblower and showman. His livestreams drew millions, naming China's most powerful men and promising revelations that could topple an empire. He launched new movements, new coins, and new conspiracies-while Beijing denounced him as a criminal and U.S. prosecutors built a fraud case that would eventually send him to prison.Was he a truth-teller, a con man, or something in between? This book follows the full arc: from his rise inside China's secret patronage networks, to his dramatic exile in New York, to his alliance with Steve Bannon and the launch of the "New Federal State of China." It traces how his followers waved flags at Trump rallies, how Chinese state media gloated at his conviction, and how American courts seized his yachts and penthouses to repay betrayed investors.But the deeper story isn't only about Guo. It is about what his saga revealed: The fragility of secrecy. Guo thrived because both Beijing and Washington left gaps wide open. When truth is hidden, conspiracy fills the void.The business of outrage. Guo turned anger into an economy-livestreams into donations, coins into loyalty, spectacle into a business model.The speed gap. While regulators and courts moved slowly, Guo and his allies pumped out daily disinformation in real time. Democracies struggled to keep up.The mirror effect. Guo exposed not just China's vulnerabilities but America's own: distrust of institutions, hunger for scandal, and a media system addicted to drama.Drawing on court filings, investigative reporting, victim testimony, and disinformation research, The Billionaire Who Knew Too Much reconstructs the most improbable exile story of our age. It shows how a man who fled Beijing's machine ended up replicating it in miniature, building a shadow network of lawyers, lobbyists, and loyalists in the heart of Manhattan.Guo was fraud and fighter both. He revealed Beijing's black box-and exploited America's blind spots. He cracked open truths that both sides wanted buried, then drowned them in spectacle. His fall became Beijing's propaganda victory, his movement fractured, and his victims waited for restitution that never came. Yet his legacy endures as warning: in an era of information war, the line between truth and conspiracy is not erased-it is weaponized.If you want to understand how authoritarian power reaches across borders, how conspiracies metastasize in democracies, and how one man's contradictions became a global mirror, this book is essential reading.In the end, Guo Wengui will not be remembered as a hero. He will be remembered as the billionaire who knew too much-and made the whole world see what it wanted to ignore. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…

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Titel
The Billionaire Who Knew Too Much (Paperback)
Autor
Mathias C. Lang
Verlag
Silent Thunder Press
Erscheinungsjahr
2025
Zustand
new
Einband
Paperback
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN-10
1997624486
ISBN-13
9781997624486

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