The Virus That Saves Mankind From Communism

Bass says U.S. should let the Chinese virus rampage through the ranks of the Global Times and the rest of the communist party
By Hannah Levitt

Kyle Bass

Kyle Bass took his long-time battle with communist China up another notch by getting into a heated spat with the editor-in-chief of a Communist Party-backed newspaper.
The hedge fund manager suggested on Twitter that the U.S. abandon efforts to help contain the coronavirus and let it spread through China’s leadership.
“We should take our supplies and go back home. Let the chinese virus rampage through the ranks of the Global Times and the rest of the communist party,” the founder and chief investment officer of Dallas-based Hayman Capital Management wrote.
He was responding to a tweet from Hu Xijin, editor-in-chief of the Global Times, a daily run by the Chinese Communist Party’s People’s Daily, in which he complained about “belated” U.S. aid.


Hu Xijin 胡锡进
✔@HuXijin_GT
.@Jkylebass As an investor with 129K twitter followers, you uttered such a malicious curse. You should apologize.

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1:47 PM - Feb 9, 2020

Bass later deleted the tweet but doubled down when Hu suggested he apologize.
“I will not,” Bass replied. 

“You arrested, censured, and ‘punished’ (only God knows what you did to Li Wenliang and the other 7 doctors) the heroes of Wuhan. You are disgrace to humanity.”
In an emailed statement to Bloomberg News addressing his spat with Hu, he said he deleted the tweet because he “felt that it was too harsh for the rank and file” of the Global Times, but that he will “never apologize to a self-righteous, attempted manipulator of public opinion,” referring to Hu.
Bass has long been a vocal critic of China’s predatory policies -- he forecast last month that Hong Kong will suffer a “full-fledged banking crisis” this year and said it’s unlikely that Beijing will adhere to a trade deal with the U.S.
The coronavirus disease surfaced in late December in Wuhan, China. 

The ensuing global outbreak has infected tens of thousands of people and killed more than 900.

Murderous Pigs of Asia

Kyle Bass attacked the 'murderous pigs' who run China after a tribunal found it harvests organs from prisoners

• Kyle Bass, head of Hayman Capital Management, has attacked China's ruling party after a tribunal concluded prisoners are being executed to harvest their organs for transplants.
• "Reading this made me sick to my stomach," tweeted Kyle Bass, the head of Hayman Capital Management. "It's time to completely cut ties with the MURDEROUS PIGS that run the Chinese Communist Party."
• Mr. Bass has also accused Huawei of theft, condemned the Chinese as genocidal killers, and cheered the Hong Kong protests in the past week.

By Theron Mohamed

Kyle Bass, head of Hayman Capital Management 

A US hedge-fund manager has attacked China's ruling party on Twitter after an independent tribunal of human-rights advocates concluded prisoners are being executed to harvest their organs for transplants.
"Reading this made me sick to my stomach," tweeted Kyle Bass, head of Hayman Capital Management, referring to an article detailing the China tribunal's findings. 

"It's time to completely cut ties with the MURDEROUS PIGS that run the Chinese Communist Party."
Mr. Bass, a longstanding China bear, shorted the Chinese yuan for nearly four years until exiting the position earlier this year. 

He has accused Chinese smartphone giant Huawei of stealing US technology, condemned the Chinese as "genocidal killers," and cheered Hong Kong protestors' resistance to a China-backed extradition bill in the past week.
The China Tribunal determined members of religious minorities such as Falun Gong have been imprisoned, tortured, and executed to harvest their organs for transplants. 

It found evidence of prisoners being kept alive while their organs were forcibly removed. 

Cases of forced organ harvesting in China date back at least 20 years and continue, it said.
"Forced organ harvesting from prisoners of conscience has been practiced for a substantial period of time involving a very substantial number of victims," the tribunal concluded. 

"Very many people have died indescribably hideous deaths for no reason."
Chinese officials said they stopped harvesting organs from death-row prisoners in 2014 and shifted to a voluntary donation system.
The tribunal was headed by Sir Geoffrey Nice, a barrister who led the prosecution of Slobodan Milošević, the former president of Serbia charged with genocide, torture, and other crimes against humanity. 

The panel included several human-rights lawyers, a surgeon, and a historian.

American Quislings: Wall Street and corporate America are funding China’s fight with the US

Former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon and hedge fund manager Kyle Bass accused Wall Street of funding China’s war with the U.S.

By YENNEE LEE

CNBC’s exclusive interview with Steve Bannon and Kyle Bass

Former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon and hedge fund manager Kyle Bass have accused Wall Street and corporate America of funding China’s fight with the U.S.
Bannon and Bass are members of the Committee on the Present Danger: China.

It was launched to educate and inform American citizens and policymakers about the existential threats posed by China, according to the committee’s website.
“The entire operation of the Chinese Communist Party and what they’re running in China is being funded by Wall Street,” Bannon told CNBC’s Brian Sullivan on Thursday.
“Corporate America today is the lobbying arm of the Chinese Communist Party and Wall Street is the investor relations department,” he said, calling China “the most significant existential threat that we have ever faced.”

Hedge fund manager Kyle Bass.

Mr Bass — a known China bear, who is also the founder and chief investment officer of Hayman Capital Management — claimed that large American companies are the ones pushing U.S. President Donald Trump to conclude a trade deal with China.

“If you look behind the scenes, it is corporate America pushing Trump to do a deal. And it is the corporate American chieftains that have their biggest businesses, let’s say most growth, coming out of China. And China plays that card. They play it better than anybody else,” Mr Bass told CNBC’s Sullivan.

“They open a market to very specific people to basically court influence with that person and going... into the presidential office to actually change policy,” said Bass.

No hope of coexistence with China
The Committee on the Present Danger was first established in the 1950s to warn President Harry Truman’s administration of the influence of communism in the U.S. 

The committee’s latest focus on China is its fourth iteration.
In addition to Mr Bannon and Mr Bass, other members of the group include fervent supporters of President Trump, fellows from think tanks, and former defense and intelligence officials.

Huawei is a spy agency for the Chinese Communist Party

Under President Trump, Washington has taken a tougher stance on China compared to previous administrations. 

In addition to issues surrounding trade, American intelligence chiefs expressed their distrust of Chinese tech giant Huawei and Chinese telecom company ZTE.
But the committee appeared to advocate a stronger take on rogue China compared to the Trump administration. 

In its guiding principles posted on its website, the committee said: “There is no hope of coexistence with China as long as the Communist Party governs the country.”
When asked if he would tell U.S. companies to stop doing business in China, Bannon replied: “No. What you do is you back President Trump.”
“We have a whole of government approach to really confront China on this economic war. This has never happened,” he added.