Steve Bannon was having a good summer aboard Guo Wengui's yacht, torching the CCP. Now both men are feeling the heat.
Illustration by Luis Grañena
On a Saturday morning, a month before he was arrested for fraud, Stephen K. Bannon was on the phone from somewhere on the Long Island sound, sounding triumphant and caffeinated as he celebrated America’s escalating rhetoric with China.
“This is a war plan, and it’s being executed upon,” he crowed, referring to the tough-on-China speech delivered a few days before by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo at the Nixon Library. To Bannon, it was a clear signal that China hawks like Pompeo
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