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Translation: Guo Wengui Promises Evidence During Party Congress
CDT cannot verify any information presented by Guo Wengui. Guo Wengui has been hurling explosive allegations of corruption at top Party officials from his swanky penthouse in Manhattan for the past six months. All the while, he has promised to hold a “global news conference” at which he will unveil the cache of evidence he claims will back up his many so-far unsubstantiated assertions. In his September 10 “all’s well” YouTube video, Guo
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Security Officials Targeted in Call for U.S. Sanctions...
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Translation: Guo Wengui on Jiang Zemin’s Secret Empire
CDT cannot verify any information presented by Guo Wengui. For the past six
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Word of the Week: Summit
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