Josh Rogin - Chaos Under Heaven

92 major speech on economics: “Remarks by President Trump at APEC CEO Summit—Da Nang, Vietnam,” White House, November 10, 2017, https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/remarks-president-trump-apec-ceo-summit-da-nang-vietnam/.

93 I wrote a column: Josh Rogin, “Trump to Skip Key Asia Summit in Philippines to Go Home Earlier,” Washington Post, July 30, 2020, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/josh-rogin/wp/2017/10/24/trump-to-skip-key-asia-summit-in-philippines-to-go-home-earlier/.

93 I wrote another column: Josh Rogin, “Trump Reverses Course, Decides to Attend the East Asia Summit,” Washington Post, November 3, 2017, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/josh-rogin/wp/2017/11/03/trump-reverses-course-decides-to-attend-the-east-asia-summit/.

94 Trump recounted: Ben Wescott, “US President Trump Says He Called Xi Jinping the ‘King’ of China,” CNN, April 2, 2019, https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/02/politics/trump-xi-king-of-china-intl/index.html.

94 confirmed his attendance: Kayla Tausche, “Trump Administration Has Yet to Reveal Details of Jared Kushner’s Secretive 2017 Meeting in China,” CNBC, January 30, 2020, https://www.cnbc.com/2020/01/30/trump-administration-mum-on-secretive-kushner-meeting-in-china-in-2017.html.

94 had revealed: Emily Rauhala and William Wan, “In a Beijing Ballroom, Kushner Family Pushes $500,000 ‘Investor Visa’ to Wealthy Chinese,” Washington Post, May 6, 2017, https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/in-a-beijing-ballroom-kushner-family-flogs-500000-investor-visa-to-wealthy-chinese/2017/05/06/cf711e53-eb49-4f9a-8dea-3cd836fcf287_story.html.

95 opened an investigation: Brennan Weiss, “The SEC Is Investigating the Kushner Family’s Company over Its Use of a Controversial Visa Program,” Business Insider, January 6, 2018, https://www.businessinsider.com/sec-launches-probe-into-kushner-companies-for-use-of-eb-5-visa-program-2018-1.

95 licensed his name: Chris Isidore, “Trump Tower’s Chinese Investors Buy a Path to U.S. Citizenship,” CNNMoney, March 8, 2016, https://money.cnn.com/2016/03/08/news/companies/donald-trump-wealthy-chinese-visas/index.html.

95 said to the Wall Street Journal: Julianna Goldman, “Trump’s Rhetoric and Financial Interests in China Present Conflicts of Interest,” CBS News, November 16, 2016, https://www.cbsnews.com/news/donald-trump-rhetoric-financial-interests-in-china-present-conflicts-of-interest/.

95 according to PBS: Robert Lawrence, “Column: Trump’s Outrage over Outsourcing Doesn’t Apply to His Own Merchandise,” PBS NewsHour, March 8, 2016, https://www.pbs.org/newshour/economy/column-trumps-outrage-over-outsourcing-doesnt-apply-to-his-own-merchandise.

95 also spotted dining: Josh Rogin, “China’s Jack Ma Has Penetrated the Trump Administration—and He Knows What He Wants,” Washington Post, July 19, 2017, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/josh-rogin/wp/2017/07/19/chinas-jack-ma-has-penetrated-the-trump-administration-and-he-knows-what-he-wants/.

96 had reportedly been arranged: Kayla Tausche, “Trump Administration Has Yet to Reveal Details of Jared Kushner’s Secretive 2017 Meeting in China,” CNBC, January 30, 2020, https://www.cnbc.com/2020/01/30/trump-administration-mum-on-secretive-kushner-meeting-in-china-in-2017.html.

96 born at the movement’s height: “The Fabulous Life of Wendi Deng Murdoch, a Close Friend of Ivanka Trump Whom Jared Kushner Was Reportedly Warned May Be a Chinese Spy,” Business Insider, July 30, 2020, https://www.businessinsider.com.au/fabulous-life-of-wendi-deng-murdoch-2017-12?r=US&IR=T.

96 her parents were engineers: Eric Ellis, “Wendi Deng Murdoch,” The Monthly, June 6, 2007, https://www.themonthly.com.au/issue/2007/june/1311127304/eric-ellis/wendi-deng-murdoch.

96 Jake and Joyce Cherry: John Lippman, “Rupert Murdoch’s Wife Wendi Wields Influence at News Corp.,” Wall Street Journal, November 1, 2000, https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB973040597961471219.

97 Ken Chapman would later reflect: “Rupert and Wendi on Their Chinese Joyride,” Crikey, May 6, 2000, https://www.crikey.com.au/2000/05/07/rupert-and-wendi-on-their-chinese-joyride/.

97 Murdoch has implied: Roy Greenslade, “Rupert Murdoch on His Divorce from Wendi, His Sons and His Accident,” Guardian, April 10, 2014, https://www.theguardian.com/media/greenslade/2014/apr/10/rupert-murdoch-lachlan-murdoch.

97 text of a diary entry: “Read Wendi Deng Murdoch’s Mash Note Allegedly About Tony Blair: ‘He Has Such Good Body,’” Vanity Fair, March 1, 2014, https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2014/03/wendi-deng-note-tony-blair.

97 a Chinese blog claimed: “Deng Wendi Is the Leading Spy of the Chinese Communist Party” [in Chinese], Aboluowang.com, June 19, 2013, http://archive.vn/4pR77.

98 brief Jared: Kate O’Keefe and Aruna Viswanatha, “U.S. Warned Jared Kushner About Wendi Deng Murdoch,” Wall Street Journal, January 15, 2018, https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-warned-jared-kushner-about-wendi-deng-murdoch-1516052072.

98 Deng denied: O’Keeffe and Viswanatha, “U.S. Warned Jared Kushner.”

99 Ivanka first revealed: Doretta Lau, “My Life: Ivanka Trump Talks Family, Branding and China,” South China Morning Post, November 11, 2012, https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/article/1077792/my-life-ivanka-trump.

99 played a video: Simon Denyer, “Trump’s Granddaughter Gets Praise and Sympathy for Singing for Chinese President,” Washington Post, November 9, 2017, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2017/11/09/trumps-granddaughter-gets-praise-and-sympathy-for-singing-for-chinese-president/.

99 Global Times defended her: Sidney Leng, “Was Wendi Deng a Spy? Claims Fuel Debate in China,” South China Morning Post, January 18, 2018, https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/2129581/report-wendi-deng-murdoch-could-be-spy-fuels-debate-china.

100 tweeted in response: Michael Wolff (@MichaelWolfNYC), “Since their divorce, Murdoch has been telling anybody who would listen that Wendi is a Chinese spy—and had been throughout the marriage,” Twitter, January 15, 2018, 4:01 p.m., https://twitter.com/MichaelWolffNYC/status/953054474532261888.

100 had been circumspect: Derek Hawkins, “Dalai Lama, Long Friendly with U.S. Presidents, Says He Has ‘No Worries’ About Trump,” Washington Post, November 23, 2016, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2016/11/23/dalai-lama-long-friendly-with-u-s-presidents-says-he-has-no-worries-about-trump/.

104 Freedom House scored Tibet: “Countries and Territories,” Freedom House, accessed July 30, 2020, https://freedomhouse.org/countries/freedom-world/scores.

104 Xi Jinping promised: “China to ‘Smash’ Tibet Separatism,” BBC News, July 19, 2011, https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-pacific-14205998.

6. THE BINGO CLUB

114 and was arrested: “Read the Criminal Complaint: United States of America v. Yujing Zhang,” Washington Post, April 2, 2019, https://www.washingtonpost.com/context/read-the-criminal-complaint-united-states-of-america-v-yujing-zhang/0cda8f8c-a523-4c40-8afd-036036b99eb3/.

114 who founded and runs: Anna Fifield, “How China’s ‘Dr. Charles’ Claims to Have a Pipeline to U.S. Power. The Reality Appears Far More Murky,” Washington Post, April 3, 2019, https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/how-chinas-dr-charles-peddles-claims-of-access-to-us-power/2019/04/03/516a792c-5617-11e9-aa83-504i086bf5d6_story.html.