The US-based right-wing Chinese billionaire Miles Guo (Guo Wengui), who worked closely with Donald Trump advisor Steve Bannon, was sentenced to 30 years in prison for committing $1 billion of fraud. Ben Norton explains how Western governments and media outlets support "dissidents" from countries they don't like, who are often corrupt grifters and con artists; and how fake "experts" make money by spreading absurd disinformation about China, Iran, Cuba, Venezuela, North Korea, etc.

VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSVBsyDz1ks

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0:00 Billionaire fraudster Miles Guo

1:03 Links to Trump, Steven Bannon

4:34 US DOJ prosecution

6:31 China's charges

8:06 US media whitewashing

12:25 Corrupt West-backed "dissidents"

15:23 US support for dictators

17:12 Pro-West Chinese "dissidents"

19:40 Soviet "dissidents"

21:07 North Korean defector Yeonmi Park

24:18 Yeonmi Park becomes a meme

25:36 (CLIP) Yeonmi Park on Joe Rogan

26:12 Absurd propaganda

26:53 Park jumps on the Trump train

27:47 Western media has no standards

28:56 Fake China "expert" Gordon G Chang

34:00 Ai Weiwei change of heart

39:16 Western imperialist hypocrisy

41:17 Outro