{"podcast":{"title":"Geopolitical Economy Report","slug":"geopolitical-economy-report-5434689","podcast_index_feed_id":5434689,"rss_url":"https://feeds.soundcloud.com/users/soundcloud:users:321045635/sounds.rss","website_url":"https://GeopoliticalEconomy.com","image_url":"https://i1.sndcdn.com/avatars-thxDIECcbNVGOXjL-MoyHWw-original.jpg","author":"Ben Norton","episode_count":500,"summary":"Geopolitical Economy Report is an independent new…","last_synced_at":"2026-09-26T08:17:26.449619+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/geopolitical-economy-report-5434689"},"episode":{"title":"This scandal says everything about the West's hypocrisy","slug":"this-scandal-says-everything-about-the-west-s-hypocrisy","published_at":"2026-07-02T14:44:20+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/geopolitical-economy-report-5434689/this-scandal-says-everything-about-the-west-s-hypocrisy","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/geopolitical-economy-report-5434689","url":"https://soundcloud.com/geopoliticaleconomy/scandal-miles-guo-china-west-hypocrisy","audio_url":"https://feeds.soundcloud.com/stream/2351922659-geopoliticaleconomy-scandal-miles-guo-china-west-hypocrisy.mp3","summary":"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 Topics 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","meta_description":"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 i…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2490,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/geopolitical-economy-report-5434689/episodes/this-scandal-says-everything-about-the-west-s-hypocrisy/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/geopolitical-economy-report-5434689/this-scandal-says-everything-about-the-west-s-hypocrisy.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}