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-**Guo Wengui**, also known as **Miles Guo**, **Ho Wan Kwok**, **Miles Kwok**, **Brother Seven** and **The Principal**,((//23 CRIM 118.// (2023, March 6). Cryptome; United States District Court Southern District of New York. https://web.archive.org/web/20230405092411/https://cryptome.org/2023/03/kwok-002.pdf)) is a Chinese billionaire based in [[united_states:New York]].
+**Guo Wengui**, also known as **Miles Guo**, **Ho Wan Kwok**, **Miles Kwok**, **Brother Seven**, **Guo Haoyun** and **The Principal**,((//23 CRIM 118.// (2023, March 6). Cryptome; United States District Court Southern District of New York. https://web.archive.org/web/20230405092411/https://cryptome.org/2023/03/kwok-002.pdf)) is a Chinese billionaire based in [[united_states:New York]].
-Guo is the registered or functional owner of a number of companies including [[GTV Media Group]], [[G Clubs|G|CLUBS]] and [[G Fashion|G|Fashion]], and invested in [[GETTR]].
+Guo is the registered or functional owner of a number of companies including [[GTV Media Group]], [[G Clubs|G|CLUBS]], [[G Fashion|G|Fashion]] and [[G Music|G | Music]], and is an investor in [[GETTR]].
 He is the father of [[Qiang Guo]], owner of [[Saraca Media Group]].((Apps, A. M. (2023, March 15). //Case 1:23-cv-02200 Document 1.// Securities and Exchange Commission. https://web.archive.org/web/20230406075210/https://www.sec.gov/litigation/complaints/2023/comp25668.pdf))
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 Guo was imprisoned in 1989, and upon his release, took a job with a [[china:Hong Kong]] entrepreneur named [[Xia Ping]].
-In 1993, Guo ran a company called [[Big Boss Furniture]]. He then joined a project to build the first skyscraper hotel in [[china:henan:Zhengzhou]]. Around 2002, he relocated to [[china:Beijing]].
+In 1993, Guo ran a company called [[Big Boss Furniture]]. He then joined a project to build the first skyscraper hotel in [[china:henan:Zhengzhou]], the [[Yuda International Trade Centre]].((Business Insider. (2023, March 24). //Inside the “mysterious” life of exiled Chinese billionaire tycoon Guo Wengui.// South China Morning Post. http://archive.today/2023.03.24-092734/https://www.scmp.com/magazines/style/entertainment/article/3214670/inside-exiled-chinese-billionaire-guo-wenguis-mysterious-life-once-one-chinas-richest-men-business?module=perpetual_scroll_0&pgtype=article&campaign=3214670)) Around 2002, he relocated to [[china:Beijing]].
 According to the //[[New Yorker]],// Guo used [[sexual blackmail]] against Beijing's vice-mayor [[Liu Zhihua]] in order to secure a permit to build beside the site of the then-upcoming [[2008 Summer Olympics]]. The blackmail material was allegedly provided to Guo by a Chinese "spymaster" named [[Ma Jian]]. The plot of land was used to build the [[Pangu Plaza]].
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 Shortly after the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, Guo invited [[Orville Schell]], Director of the [[Center on U.S.-China Relations]] at the [[Asia Society]], for a dinner at the [[Pangu Plaza]]. He also reportedly had dinners with former Secretaries of State [[Henry Kissinger]] and [[George Shultz]], and met with [[Kim Jong-un]] on a trip to [[North Korea]].((Forsythe, M., & Weiser, B. (2023, March 30). //The Undoing of Guo Wengui, Billionaire Accused of Fraud on 2 Continents.// The New York Times. http://archive.today/2023.04.01-051058/https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/30/us/guo-wengui-china.html))
-In or around 2013, [[Tony Blair]] agreed to introduce Guo to members of the [[House of Saud|Saudi Royal Family]], who allegedly gave Guo $3 billion.((Ungoed-Thomas, J. (2021, June 5). //Tony Blair helped secure a £47 million penthouse for Chinese tycoon.// Daily Mail Online. http://archive.today/2021.06.06-040515/https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9655837/Tony-Blair-helped-secure-47million-penthouse-New-York-billionaire-Chinese-tycoon.html))
+In or around 2013, [[Tony Blair]] agreed to introduce Guo to members of the Abu Dhabi Royal Family, who allegedly gave Guo $3 billion.((Ungoed-Thomas, J. (2021, June 5). //Tony Blair helped secure a £47 million penthouse for Chinese tycoon.// Daily Mail Online. http://archive.today/2021.06.06-040515/https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9655837/Tony-Blair-helped-secure-47million-penthouse-New-York-billionaire-Chinese-tycoon.html))
 ==== Defecting from China ====
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 In April 2020, Guo and Bannon co-founded [[GTV Media Group]].((Lawson, C. (2020, October 26). //The Strange Case of Guo Wengui.// The Dispatch. http://archive.today/2023.01.20-220530/https://thedispatch.com/article/the-strange-case-of-guo-wengui/))
-On June 4, 2020, Guo and Bannon live-streamed an announcement of the launch of the [[New Federal State of China]].
+On June 4, 2020, Guo and Bannon live-streamed an announcement of the launch of the [[New Federal State of China]].((Hatomi, H. (2020, June 8). //The vision of the New Federal State of China...// Asia Power Watch. https://web.archive.org/web/20200622204548/https://asiapowerwatch.com/the-vision-of-the-new-federal-state-of-china/))
 Guo was an early investor in [[GETTR]] through a "family foundation."((Sommer, W., Rawnsley, A., & Suebsaeng, A. (2021, July 1). //Trumpworld App Is Bankrolled by Fugitive Chinese Billionaire.// The Daily Beast. http://archive.today/2022.01.04-234806/https://www.thedailybeast.com/trumpworld-app-is-bankrolled-by-fugitive-chinese-billionaire))
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 ===== External links =====
+  * [[https://opensea.io/collection/miles-guo|OpenSea]]
+  * [[https://wiki.whiteroseintelligence.com/en/Guo-Wengui|White Rose Wiki]]
   * [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guo_Wengui|Wikipedia]]