Guo Wengui (Miles Guo)

摘要

Guo Wengui (Miles Guo; Ho Wan Kwok in U.S. court filings; supporters often call him “Brother Seven” or “Mr. Wengui”) founded the Whistleblower Movement (WM) and co-founded the New Federal State of China. A Beijing real-estate businessman, he livestreamed continuously from abroad from 2017, exposing the corruption, power struggles and hidden history of the CCP leadership. His intelligence on CCP interference in U.S. elections and on the virus’s origin was later confirmed by declassified U.S. government documents. Targeted by the CCP’s all-out unrestricted warfare, he was arrested in New York in March 2023 and sentenced to 30 years in June 2026; he is in custody and has appealed.

Early life and exile

The following is drawn from the sentencing memorandum filed by his defense counsel on March 21, 2026 (Doc 822, which cites the Probation Office’s presentence report throughout).

Guo Wengui was born in 1968 in Jilin, the seventh of eight brothers; his father was a miner and his mother a homemaker. During the Cultural Revolution his parents were treated as “enemies of the state,” and the family lived in a one-room shack in the mountains of Jilin. He left school at 15 to work and support the family.

During the 1989 Tiananmen protests he sold his motorcycle and gave the proceeds to the students. Police then came to question him; when an officer pointed a gun at him, his 17-year-old brother Guo Wenbin stepped in front of him, was shot, and died after being denied medical treatment. Guo himself was held for 22 months on a charge of inciting counter-revolutionary activity, and was beaten and tortured.

After his release in 1991 he went into real estate, starting in Zhengzhou. Land his family bought in 1999 became Pangu Plaza in Beijing, beside the Olympic “Bird’s Nest” stadium. In 2000 he obtained a Hong Kong passport under the name Ho Wan Kwok; he had used the English name Miles, after the jazz musician Miles Davis, since 1991. In 2003 he exposed the corruption of a Beijing city official; in September 2004 dozens of police seized him at Beijing airport and held him for 15 days, during which he was tortured.

In December 2013 he left mainland China for Hong Kong. In October 2014 a senior central-government official told him he was suspected of spying for the United States and had to return to the mainland for questioning; he left Hong Kong for London at once and has never returned to China. On January 10, 2015, Chinese authorities raided the Pangu Hotel in Beijing and arrested his wife, daughter, five brothers and other relatives, along with some 270 employees; from late that month they seized his family companies’ holdings in China, worth about $10 billion. In April 2017 he moved from London to the United States.

Seven years of livestreams

From 2017 he exposed, in livestream after livestream from abroad, corruption, power struggles and the hidden history at the top of the CCP, including the crackdown on human-rights lawyers, organ harvesting, and the CCP’s infiltration of Taiwan, Hong Kong and the United States. He called this sustained public disclosure the “Whistleblower Movement,” and went on to disclose “Blue-Gold-Yellow (BGY),” the “13579 Plan,” the “Nanputuo Meeting” and more (see the corresponding entries in this glossary). His defense counsel wrote in the sentencing memorandum that for many people in China who reached his broadcasts over a VPN, they were their first concrete exposure to Tiananmen and other CCP abuses.

The course he set for the movement was “end the CCP through law, through America, and through the CCP itself” (以法灭共、以美灭共、以共灭共). In the archive’s transcripts, “through law” first appears in the livestream of November 15, 2018; the three phrases together appear in 202 livestreams, through February 2023.

Those livestreams are the videos in this archive. It holds 3,187 of his livestreams and videos from January 26, 2017 to March 14, 2023 (the day before his arrest), about 2,810 hours in total; 3,138 of them have transcripts, searchable in the archive and citable in Ask the Archive. By year:

• 2017: 261 videos, about 174 hours
• 2018: 400 videos, about 182 hours
• 2019: 508 videos, about 438 hours
• 2020: 574 videos, about 399 hours
• 2021: 754 videos, about 678 hours
• 2022: 560 videos, about 728 hours
• 2023 (to March 14): 130 videos, about 210 hours

Intelligence confirmed by the U.S. government

Two core pieces of intelligence he repeated throughout 2020 were later confirmed by declassified U.S. government documents:

• CCP interference in U.S. elections: from January 2020 he asserted that “the Communist Party is playing President Trump’s election” and would use every means to influence it. On July 16, 2026, President Trump announced from the White House the declassification of hundreds of pages of Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) intelligence documents stating that the CCP had interfered in the 2018, 2019 and 2020 U.S. elections from mid-2018, penetrated election systems, and illegally obtained some 220 million U.S. voter records.
• The virus came from a laboratory: in January 2020, as the outbreak began, he linked the virus to the Wuhan P4 laboratory. On June 18, 2026, ODNI declassified origin documents stating that NIAID funded gain-of-function research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology through EcoHealth, and that some in the intelligence community had suppressed the “lab leak” assessment.

See the archive events “COVID-19 Laboratory Origin” and “CCP Interference in 2020 U.S. Election.”

The New Federal State of China

He and Steve Bannon met in late 2017 and in November 2018 launched the Rule of Law Fund and Rule of Law Society. On June 4, 2020 (Beijing time) the two announced in New York the founding of the New Federal State of China (NFSC), with the goal of ending CCP rule. Around the movement came the “G-series” ventures such as GTV and the Himalaya Exchange, and organizations such as the Himalaya movement.

The CCP’s unrestricted warfare

After he spoke out, the CCP waged all-out unrestricted warfare against him, reaching from China into the U.S. Much of it has been confirmed by U.S. Justice Department prosecutions and U.S. congressional proceedings:

• Offers and pressure: between January 2016 and May 2017 Chinese officials contacted him some 30 times, offering to free his relatives and employees and unfreeze his assets if he stopped his disclosures and stayed away from the U.S. government. He refused. In May 2017 the CCDI sent officials to New York to press him in person.
• Red notice and the VOA broadcast: on April 19, 2017, nine days after he arrived in the U.S., the Chinese government asked Interpol to issue a red notice against him, hours before a live Voice of America interview. China’s Foreign Ministry had summoned VOA’s Beijing correspondent beforehand; the broadcast, billed as three hours, was cut off early in the second hour.
• Lobbying for his removal: from May 2017, Vice Minister of Public Security Sun Lijun, through intermediaries, paid heavily to enlist American political and business figures to lobby the Trump administration to cancel his visa and send him back to China. A series of U.S. Justice Department prosecutions has since confirmed the operation; participants have pleaded guilty or been convicted.
• Online smear campaign: a Justice Department complaint filed in April 2023 revealed that the Ministry of Public Security’s “912 Special Project Working Group” had, from at least 2017 until after his arrest, used thousands of fake accounts on Twitter, Facebook and YouTube to brand him a fraud. His own Facebook and YouTube accounts were suspended; in 2025 a former Facebook executive testified to the U.S. Senate that the company took down his profile in 2017 at the CCP’s behest.
• Hacking: on September 5, 2017 he applied for asylum with the Department of Homeland Security; a week later the computer system of the law firm handling it was hacked, and his asylum materials were stolen and then posted on Twitter.
• Lawsuits: from 2017, civil suits against him arrived in a cluster. He pointed out that they shared the same law firms and lawyers, and that the aim was not to win but “to get you deported, and then frame you criminally.” On August 20, 2020 he named the method “legal unrestricted warfare.”
• Coerced complaints: according to trial testimony and the defense sentencing memorandum, in 2020–2021 Ministry of State Security officers in China interrogated investors in GTV and other ventures, took their share certificates, and made them file fraud complaints with the FBI, the New York Attorney General, the SEC and the press, supplying templates to do so. The SEC began investigating GTV’s securities offerings around July 2020; he identified this as “economic unrestricted warfare against GTV.”
• Bankruptcy and family: his personal bankruptcy case began in February 2022; injunctions and contempt findings in the bankruptcy proceedings later extended to his daughter.

In November 2022 he said he was ready to be taken away at any moment. Four months later, on March 15, 2023, he was arrested in New York.

The criminal case and where it stands

He was charged with offenses including wire fraud, securities fraud, bank fraud and money-laundering conspiracy, and has been detained since his arrest. On July 16, 2024 the jury returned verdicts on 12 counts: guilty on 9, not guilty on 3 (wire fraud and securities fraud tied to the GTV private placement, and unlawful monetary transactions). On June 29, 2026 the court imposed a total sentence of 30 years and a money judgment of $889 million. In declarations the defense submitted before sentencing, 1,223 investors expressly denied having been harmed by him.

After judgment he appealed to the Second Circuit, where the appeal is pending. Since August 17, 2026 he has been held at FCI Danbury in Connecticut.

For the full timeline and the case-file sources, see the archive events “Guo Wengui’s Criminal Proceedings” and “The CCP’s Legal Unrestricted Warfare Against Miles Guo.”