Nothing is guaranteed to make a university socialist spit their soy milk in screeching outrage than saying, as I do, that Xi Xinping’s China is the Nazi Germany of the 21st century. But it’s all there: the aggressive militarisation, the drive to world domination (”Without Haste. Without Fear. We Conquer the World”, the Party openly states), the all-powerful state, the cronyism at all levels of society, even the concentration camps for despised ethnic minorities.
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As it turns out, I’m not the only one to think so. Even senior Bloomberg journalists with China experience say it – not that their boss, Democrat insider Mike Bloomberg wants you to hear it. When some of Bloomberg’s most senior reporters and editors ran a well-researched investigative piece about China’s ruling elite, “Mini Mike” spiked the story quicker than you can say “kowtow”.
Bloomberg News allegedly killed a story about the wealth of Communist Party elites in China six years ago to appease the country, and then sought to silence both the reporter and his wife.
The publication not only successfully censored the story at the time, but also was able to silence all reporters involved in the story, according to NPR, who broke the story. Bloomberg News reportedly tried to keep one of the reporter’s wife silent as well.
The story threatened to expose the new Mandarin class – the ultra-wealthy Communist Party elite.
“Nazis [China] who are in front of us and behind us everywhere,” Bloomberg’s founding editor-in-chief Matthew Winkler said in a 2013 phone call about whether to run the story, according to audio verified by NPR. “And that’s who they are. And we should have no illusions about it.”
Just as many were prepared to hold their noses and deal with the Nazi state, Bloomberg is happy to make money from China. Necessarily, that means not upsetting the Emperor-Fuhrer and his cronies.
Former Bloomberg Beijing correspondent Mike Forsythe was among a team of journalists that reported an award-winning investigation in 2012 on China’s ruling classes and specifically about how they acquired their wealth[…]
Forsythe and his wife, journalist Leta Hong Fincher, moved to Hong Kong after the 2012 investigation came out and receiving what they viewed as death threats. There, Forsythe and the team tried to further their 2012 investigation, this time focusing on Chinese leaders’ ties to Wang Jianlin, the nation’s wealthiest man.
Included in this new investigation was Chinese President Xi Jinping’s family, NPR reported.
The story never saw the light of day under Bloomberg News.
Like too many corporations, Bloomberg is more concerned with making money than exposing the truth about a genocidal authoritarian regime.
Winkler admitted in the phone call that fear of backlash from China made the story not worth running[…]
“If a country gives you the license to do something with certain restrictions, you have two choices,” Bloomberg said in that meeting. “You either accept the license and do it that way, or you don’t do business there.”
Guess the moral choice was just beyond you, eh, Mike?
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