On April 15, National Security Education Day, China’s CCTV aired an interview with Henry Li, a “traitorous businessman” and a “double-faced man” who confessed. On the same day, the Global Times published a “Global People” feature titled “Undercover Traitor Businessman Henry Li: Luring Women into Prostitution and Fraud, Taking Out Loans to Support Anti-China Rebellion”.
Li’s confession, generous and calm, from time to time with a smile, as if in the filming of some outstanding overseas Chinese series of return home. This sense of incongruity, coupled with the outrageous content of the confession, the whole case, like a laughing farce. In addition to funny, this farce, there are also a lot of points to be made. We might as well revisit it.
Henry Li, who had already helped former Chongqing Party Secretary Bo Xilai’s family launder money and buy a mansion in France before financing the “anti-China rebellion”, was named in the 2013 verdict against Bo Xilai by a Chinese court. He was originally testifying as a tainted witness against Bo Xilai in court.
What is strange is that after the Bo case, not only did Li get off scot-free, but he was also able to enter and leave China freely, using the companies he ran in China to transport money out of the country to support anti-China and anti-Hong Kong activities. After the Bo case, wouldn’t the State Security have paid more attention to him to prevent him from engaging in anti-party and anti-people activities again? Could he be a professional actor sent by the government to the side of the hostile people to give evidence and fabricate charges?
In his confession, he said he financed the leaders of the “anti-China and anti-Hong Kong” movement in Hong Kong, but in the final analysis, he only financed the airfare and accommodation for student leaders to attend “anti-China forums” in foreign countries. The cost of attending a few days of meetings abroad is only 20,000 to 30,000 Hong Kong dollars per person. Even if they are not sponsored by the organizers, the Hong Kong Federation of Students (HKFS), many ordinary student organizations or NGOs can fund dozens of such trips with public money every year.
Many people in the social movement in Hong Kong are from good families, and sometimes they go to Europe and the United States on their own to do nothing, and it is not difficult to pay for their own first-class air travel and stay in five-star hotels. This situation, as long as the social media will often see more, without the powerful national security special investigation office. It is said that Hong Kong’s “anti-China rebellion elements”, are to greed these travel expenses abroad and take the risk to subvert the country, the plot is really bad to laugh at the bad guys.
Lee also said he raised hundreds of thousands of dollars to fund anti-China lawmakers in the 2018 U.S. midterm elections, and as a result, many of those he funded were successfully elected. This case is really enough to stun 1.3 billion people. It turns out that hundreds of thousands of dollars can buy several U.S. Congressmen. This amount of money is hardly enough to buy a decent apartment in Beijing or Shanghai. If Henry Li can get more than one congressman elected with a few hundred thousand dollars, many people in the U.S. political circles are afraid to ask him how he did it.
What is even more shocking is that Lee said he was involved in the formulation of the U.S. Sanctions Act, which I think refers to the Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act. He said he participated in closed-door meetings with members of the U.S. Congress and offered a number of ideas that were eventually adopted to make the bill more damaging. It turns out that even the U.S. government, too, is Henry Lee’s pawn. In recent years, the U.S.-China relations, it turns out that it is all Henry Li out. Such a serious case, Henry Li only sentenced to 11 years, is simply incredible.
However, Lee’s confession also confirms to everyone some Chinese national conditions. For example, Li abducted young women for prostitution and helped recruit friends and relatives from abroad to “prostitute” them on the mainland, and Li used the company’s fake invoices to obtain millions of yuan in loans from state-run banks, and then shipped the money overseas with a little bit of each company each time they went abroad. This valuable information on China’s use of beauty to unite people outside the country, the way state bank loans were cheated away and the way the money was taken away overseas, is confirmed by the official media and is very rare.
Most notably, the report emphasizes that Li has been presenting himself as a patriotic businessman. Is this a warning that there are actually many traitors in the ranks of patriotic businessmen? Could this be the prelude to the Chinese Communist Party’s campaign to remove traitors from the ranks of patriotic businessmen? In that case, it would be really worthwhile to wait and see.
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