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Mysterious ‘Federal State of New China’ banners seen on planes over NYC

By
Vincent Barone
Published June 3, 2020
Updated June 4, 2020, 9:09 a.m. ET

A mysterious fleet of propeller planes was spotted flying banners over New York on Wednesday congratulating a “Federal State of New China.”

Puzzled and exasperated New Yorkers spotted the banners from Manhattan, flying over the Hudson, and down over Red Hook in Brooklyn.

“I officially have no idea what the f–k is happening anymore,” one person tweeted with an image of the planes over New York Harbor.

The banners appear to be a bizarre stunt against the Chinese Communist Party launched by Steve Bannon and a fugitive Chinese billionaire, who together on the anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre declared the Chinese government illegitimate.

“From today the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) will no longer be the lawful government of China,” the billionaire, Guo Wengui, shouted into a livestream from a boat in New York Harbor, with Bannon by his side and the Statue of Liberty in the background.

“I’m here to tell everybody that loves peace, law, humanitarian — we’re going to end the Communist Party once and for all. We got hundreds of countries of support,” Guo claimed.

Onlookers on Twitter said they noticed as many as eight planes carrying banners, some with the message “Congratulations to Federal State of New China!”

Guo, a frequent critic of China,  has recently been pushing coronavirus theories alleging the virus began in a Chinese lab.

He was described by the New York Times Magazine as a mysterious exiled businessman lobbing “impossible-to-verify” accusations at China’s ruling elite, photographed in the feature in a white suit and holding a Pomeranian.

Trump’s former chief strategist joins Guo in a chant of “Take down the CCP!” before Guo kisses Bannon on the cheek.

Bannon goes on to accuse China of causing “great bloodshed in Hong Kong” and, without evidence, “unleash[ing]” the coronavirus on the world before reading a declaration of the Federal State of New China.

“Recently it unleashed a biological attack on the free countries of the world, the CCP virus, through their incompetence and their corruption and their cover-up,” Bannon said.

“The Chinese Communist Party is a gangster organization with no legitimacy,” he added.

John Sifton, Asia advocacy director at the nonprofit Human Rights Watch, noticed the planes over Brooklyn.

“None of us have any idea what the f is going on,” he tweeted after consulting his colleagues.

“Apparently it has something to do with Steve Bannon but it still makes no sense.”