re: #432 Danack

Not all Chinese are aligned with the Chinese government.

I can’t access that article, but my understanding is that Bannon has partnered with the same people behind the Epoch Times, which is controlled by the Falun Gong cult.

And yeah…..cultists in the US partnering up with cultists in China is certainly an interesting but perhaps not desirable turn of events.

There was a whole piece in the NYT a few days back “wondering” about why so many Chinese “liberals” were backing Trump: those scare-quotes are quite salient: the Times’ writer seeming not to get that “anti-communist”/”anti-Chinese government” does not at all map to pat “liberal” - or even “democratic” - stances. There is a definite lobby out there of wealthy Chinese expats who are dedicated Trumpites/Republicans/RWNJs, as they love his institutionalized antagonism towards China’s government; no matter how counter-productive. Sort of analogous to the Cuban Exile Lobby’s obsessions with Castro: but better-financed…