
Don't wait for a friendly White House, Steve Bannon tells China
2019-05-23 09:37:44 source:South China Morning Post
May 23, 2019
Beijing should give up any hope that it can wait out the Donald Trump years for a less antagonistic administration, according to former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon, who predicts that China will feature prominently in the 2020 US presidential election.
In an interview with the South China Morning Post, Bannon also launched a blistering attack on the Wall Street “corporatists”, saying they had been working together with China’s ruling elites to preserve “an unfair system” and hurt the interests of American workers.
Bannon – often credited with masterminding the populist movement that helped get Trump elected in 2016 – parted ways with the president the following year after a high-profile falling out. These days he runs the Committee on the Present Danger – a cold war-era advocacy group that, under his leadership, now targets China.
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