Details Of Steve Bannon’s “Closed To The Press” China Speech Leak

Earlier this morning former White House Strategist Steve Bannon spoke at the CLSA investor forum in Hong Kong. While the event was originally intended to be open to the press via a live stream, CLSA officials later closed the interview to outsiders…presumably Bannon’s flare doesn’t quite fit with China’s desire to control media narratives. That said, luckily one local NEAsia correspondent, Wei Du, was kind enough to live tweet portions of Bannon’s speech for our reading pleasure.
Ironically, what was billed to be an “anti-China” speech turned out to be anything but that with Bannon repeatedly praising U. S.-China relations and saying “there isn’t a world leader he (Trump) respects more than the President of China.” Bannon went on to say that Trump will visit China in November and that the downside of an “economic war” with China is so huge that it has to be worked out.

This post was published at Zero Hedge on Sep 12, 2017.