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Steve Bannon accuses US firms of selling out amid ‘enslavement of the Chinese people’
- Former White House chief strategist says business and cultural ties with China have helped Communist Party dismantle world built on free citizenry
- Stopping China’s advance ‘is the defining event of our time’, he says at Committee on the Present Danger: China event
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US President Donald Trump’s former adviser Steve Bannon has issued a blistering condemnation of McKinsey & Company, Goldman Sachs and an advocacy group representing some of the most prominent Chinese Americans, as he stepped up his rhetoric about the need for Washington to confront China.
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Speaking on Tuesday at a Washington event organised by the Committee on the Present Danger: China, or CPDC – which also featured Senator Ted Cruz and former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich – Bannon excoriated groups that have promoted business and cultural ties with China.
These ties, the former White House chief strategist said, have assisted efforts by the Communist Party of China to dismantle an international order of the “nation state on the shoulders of a free citizenry” forged centuries ago in the West.
“All the McKinsey guys, all the Booz Allen [Hamilton] guys, all of the law firms, all of the accounting firms, Goldman Sachs, my old firm, all of the commercial banks, all of them” know about the Chinese government’s policies towards Uygurs and Christians and other religious minorities, and “the enslavement of the Chinese people”, Bannon said.
Efforts to stop China’s advance, as the United States did with the Soviet Union, “is the defining event of our time”, Bannon added.
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