17 Nov: National Pulse: RECEIPTS: Anti-Trump ‘Republican’ Billionaires Deeply Tied to Chinese Communist Finance.
PERHAPS WE NEED TO START REFERRING TO THE “CHINA-BACKED WALL STREET JOURNAL”?
by Staff Writer
Take the Murdochs, for example. Their New York Post mocked President Trump’s campaign roll-out with the headline: “Florida Man Makes Announcement.”
Perhaps Trump should respond by highlighting a more shocking headline – this one from Crikey (LINK) in Australia, “Murdoch empire borrows US$100m from state-owned Bank of China.”
The article details how News Corp, the parent of the New York Post and Wall Street Journal, took a 9-figure loan from a Chinese Communist-owned bank...
https://thenationalpulse.com/2022/11/17/receipts-anti-trump-republican-billionaires-deeply-tied-to-chinese-communist-regime/
the anti-Trump, anti-Murdoch, leftwing Crikey article mentioned in the National Pulse article:
1 Apr 2022: Crikey Australia: Murdoch empire borrows US$100m from state-owned Bank of China
Despite his media operations slamming Xi Jinping’s regime, the Murdochs accepted a megamillion-dollar loan from the government-run bank.
by GLENN DYER AND STEPHEN MAYNE
So what should the world make of News Corp’s decision to accept a US$100 million loan from the state-owned Bank of China’s New York branch as part of a massive US$1.25 billion loan package revealed on Thursday? Is it a case of Beijing seeking to influence the Murdochs by stepping up as a key family financier? And should the Murdochs have refused the money, effectively joining the global ***ESG boycott of Russia in which more than 400 global companies have pulled out or temporarily closed their Russian operations?
The Bank of China is the second biggest player in the 13-bank News Corp syndicate after Bank of America, which is contributing US$111.7 million...
It seems ***ESG lending in Australia is increasingly blackballing coalminers but hasn’t yet reached key propagandists such as News Corp...
Then there’s Ken Griffin...
Keen observers will note Trump’s first salvo against DeSantis came hours before this Politico puff piece which had been in the works for some time. It’s no stretch to connect the dots: Trump heard about the piece. Perhaps he was even asked for comment on the fact that a China-linked billionaire was now one of Ron DeSantis’s largest donors...
A report this year revealed that in 2006, Citadel “loaned $110 million to China Security & Surveillance Technology. The company used the funds to acquire ‘10 of the 50 biggest surveillance companies in China.’”...
The stage is set for Trump to rail against the billionaires putting China’s interests ahead of yours. Will he take advantage of it?
https://www.crikey.com.au/2022/04/01/murdoch-borrows-us100m-state-owned-bank-of-china/
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