Since leaving the White House as chief strategist to President Trump in August 2017, Stephen K. Bannon has focused almost exclusively on China. He is a member and co-founder of the "Committee on the Present Danger: China." He has formed an alliance with a Chinese fugitive billionaire named Guo Wengui, and his daily radio show, "War Room," launched an entire section devoted to China's role in the coronavirus pandemic. As a regular commentator on Fox News and the subject of two recent documentaries, "American Dharma" (2018) and "The Brink" (2018), Bannon is sounding the alarms about what he says is a war that has already begun. The Wire spoke to Bannon twice over the past two weeks, first on May 12 and then again on May 23. What follows is a lightly edited interview.
Steve Bannon Illustration by Lauren Crow
Q. On Thursday, Beijing announced that it was planning new national security laws that could give China’s leaders greater control over Hong Kong and undermine civil liberti
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