When Peter Kuo, a Silicon Valley businessman whose family immigrated to the US from Taiwan when he was a teenager, ran for Vice Chair of the California Republican Party in 2019, a series of stories published by one of the state’s most well-known political bloggers detailed Kuo’s significant business relationships in both China and Russia. The point the blogger, Aaron Park, was making was that while Kuo owned numerous corporations, none of them seemed to be particularly lucrative, and that Kuo might be a bit of a con man. Based on those stories many party insiders wondered if perhaps Kuo was a Chinese asset, but those questions and any criticism of Kuo’s business dealings were shouted down by Kuo and his allies as “racism.”Read More
EXCLUSIVE: CAGOP Vice Chair Peter Kuo’s Troubling Relationship With the CCP and IP/Tech Theft
