China launches unprecedented international publicity war against wanted tycoon Guo Wengui
Mainland officials launch unusually savvy media and cyberspace campaign at home and abroad, outside the official firewall
Chinese authorities last night launched an unusually sophisticated publicity war in conventional media and cyberspace against fugitive tycoon Guo Wengui, who is believed to be still hiding in the US.
Guo, who has also shown himself to be adept at using overseas media to make strong allegations of corruption against many high-ranking Chinese officials, was scheduled to give a three-hour interview with the US-government funded public broadcaster Voice of America (VOA) on Wednesday night.
He claimed beforehand that he would “drop a nuclear bomb of corruption allegations” against the families of top communist officials.
The VOA live broadcast of the interview, however, was cut short after just one hour. Gao had given two similar interviews to US-based Chinese-language Mingjing media earlier.
