After fleeing to the U.S., Guo Wengui established himself as an election denier, a vaccine skeptic, and a right-wing provocateur, with a degree of influence that is virtually unique among foreign citizens on American soil. What is he after?
At thirteen, Guo dropped out, and for a time he found work selling clothes and electronics. But, in 1989, before he could build much of a career, he was put in jail. He has offered a high-minded explanation for his imprisonment: Inspired by the pro-democracy protests in Tiananmen Square, he sold his motorcycle and sent thirty-six hundred yuan—about a thousand dollars—to the student activists. When police came to arrest him, his younger brother objected and was fatally shot.
Life as a white glove is lucrative but risky. “We were like the fish that clean the teeth of crocodiles,” a former white glove named Desmond Shum recalled in “Red Roulette,” a memoir that he published after fleeing China. According to his account, in the two-thousands Shum, an entrepreneur in Beijing, became a white glove for the wife of China’s Premier, Wen Jiabao. To succeed, he had to master what he called the “infinite fungibility of Chinese laws.
The Chinese security services have long cultivated relationships with “commercial cadres”—businesspeople who share information, and sometimes profits, in return for protection. The ethos, as one leader put it, is to “use business to cultivate intelligence, so that intelligence and business thrive together.”
At the site that Guo had wrested back from the vice-mayor, he developed the Pangu Plaza, a complex containing the Pangu 7 Star Hotel and a row of luxury high-rises arranged in the shape of a dragon. The tallest of the buildings, with a crown designed to resemble an Olympic flame, became a new landmark on the Beijing skyline.
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