U.S. should let
coronavirus ‘rampage’ through China’s Communist Party, says hedge-fund manager
Kyle Bass
Published: Feb 9, 2020 4:57 p.m. ET
By
SOCIAL-MEDIA
EDITOR
‘We should take our supplies and go back home. Let the Chinese
virus rampage through the ranks of the GT and the rest of the Communist Party.’
That’s hedge-fund manager Kyle Bass taking aim at Hu Xijin,
editor-in-chief of the Communist Party-backed Global Times daily newspaper, in
a now-deleted tweet cited by
Bloomberg on Sunday.
Bass, chief investment officer of Hayman Capital Management, was
responding to a tweet from Xijin in which he was complaining about U.S. aid
arriving late.
Bass, even after deleting his tweet, said he wouldn’t apologize.
“You arrested, censured, and ‘punished’ (only God knows what you did to him and
the other 7 doctors) the heroes of Wuhan,” he tweeted. “You are a disgrace to
humanity.”
He later called Global Times a “simple belligerent tabloid
designed to stir controversy with western media and commentators.”
When asked by Bloomberg why he deleted the tweet, he said in a
statement he “felt that it was too harsh for the rank and file” of the Global
Times, but that he will “never apologize to a self-righteous, attempted
manipulator of public opinion.”
As of Saturday, 724 people having died from the coronavirus with
another 34,828 cases confirmed worldwide, according to the World Health
Organization.
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