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Whenever Epstein is mentioned, most people's first reaction is probably the mysterious Lolita Island. But the darkness goes far beyond that. Buried in millions of pages of U.S. Department of Justice PDFs, files with case numbers beginning with EFTA, commentator John Thun uncovered something shocking. Epstein, the sex trafficker despised around the world, was allegedly a chief strategist who helped Wall Street penetrate Zhongnanhai. Together, they assisted China's elite in carrying out highly sophisticated and deeply corrupt schemes, even influencing decisions that seem almost unimaginable. What were these schemes? Let's dig deep in today's program. Epstein instructs JPMorgan executives on how to court Chinese officials. Document No. 1, file code EFA01820706, is a 2009 email sent by Epstein to a senior JPMorgan executive at the time, later Barclays CEO Jess Staley. Epstein, a native Brooklynite, earnestly teaches Staley a single word in pinyin, carefully spelling it out. G-U-A-N-X. Guanxi. Connections. Epstein explains that Chinese Communist Party officials are not short on money. What they lack is a commitment, something that can protect them through political upheavals and power shifts. This, he says, is the core of his Guanxi Doctrine. To obtain licenses in China and dominate the market, one cannot act merely as an investor. One must become part of the ruling family's interests. The price of becoming family is turning your bank into an offshore private vault and a placement agency for the children of elite CCP families. In the email, Epstein even scripts standard talking points. He warns Staley that when meeting ministers or party secretaries who control financial life and death, he must never say, I'm here to invest and make money. Instead, he should adopt a humble tone. I'm here to seek your guidance. I deeply respect your ancient culture and your great wisdom in governing the nation. Epstein also gives detailed advice on gift giving. Gold or U.S. dollars, he says, are crude and insulting at the highest CCP levels. Real gifts must be subtle and long-term. A recommendation to an elite private school, a private meeting with a Nobel laureate, or discreetly helping a relative of an official repurchase lost Chinese antiquities at a New York auction. Epstein calls this elegant bribery, giving face while buying political loyalty. Even meeting locations are carefully calculated. Epstein advises Chinese firms tied to CCP elites not to use sterile commercial offices in the U.S., but instead venues like his museum-like mansion on East 71st Street in New York, or exclusive royal-tinged private clubs in London. There, he tells Chinese officials they will feel at home. No cameras, no records, only alcohol and whispered power. In China, he tells JPMorgan executives to avoid major hotels and meet instead in secluded private gardens accessible only to family, where officials shed their public personas and reveal their true business nature. Under this finely-tuned psychological manipulation, JPMorgan executives began frequent visits to Zhongnanhai to build emotional ties. The result was that Wall Street abandoned its last remaining caution toward the CCP system and became its most loyal and most expensive advocate in the West. Epstein also pushed JPMorgan to establish a strategically named China Advisory Council, which in reality functioned as an overseas intake hub for the children of senior and very senior CCP officials. As Epstein wrote, hiring their children meant purchasing the entire family's political privilege at home. In substance, it was transnational hostage diplomacy and naked interest transfer. JPMorgan was later fined hundreds of millions of dollars by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission over this scheme. Finally, Epstein proposed using complex financial instruments, such as credit default swaps, CDS, to provide Chinese officials with secret, untraceable wealth management channels. This directly addressed the CCP elite's greatest fear—how to launder illicit domestic wealth, quietly move it to New York, and embed it in the global financial system without triggering anti-corruption controls. China's elite launder money and penetrate the West through Epstein. Another document, file code EFTA-01-300709, is an internal JPMorgan email dated September 2, 2010, sent by Jess Staley. Staley wrote, This is the highest-level meeting I've ever had during my time at JPMorgan. Aside from Jamie Dimon personally meeting Wang Qishan, this is as high as it gets. Within JPMorgan, meeting Wang Qishan—then the CCP's financial czar who controlled the purse strings—was considered the absolute peak. So whom did Staley meet this time? He continued, I spoke with Li Yuanchao, Minister of the CCP Central Organization Department, for nearly two hours. This person is almost certain to enter the Politburo Standing Committee in the next term. JPMorgan helped CCP elites hide and launder money and place their children in the West. In return, the powerful party apparatus represented by Li Yuanchao cleared the way for JPMorgan's expansion in China. This email is a living contract of self-sale, documenting how Western financial giants fully subordinated themselves to the CCP's will to power. The irony is that the email also references Wang Qishan. Then seen as the toughest, most unassailable figure in finance, it shows that Epstein had penetrated the CCP's most secretive centers of power. He was no longer merely a sex trafficker. He had become a transit hub for US-China elite power collusion. By early 2026, JPMorgan's footprint in China had reached the ceiling for a foreign bank. It no longer looked like an outsider, but a deeply localized financial behemoth. Beyond establishing a locally incorporated bank in 2007 with a solid base in Beijing, it completed a series of eye-watering deals. In 2020, China's first wholly foreign-owned futures company. In 2021, the first wholly foreign-owned securities firm. And by 2023, full ownership of an asset management company. From Beijing to Shanghai, Guangzhou to Chengdu, JPMorgan offices now blanket key cities. On Chinese soil, it is in some ways more all-powerful than many domestic banks. Department of Justice document FTIA-02688656 includes an especially sensitive appendix, an early-stage marketing deck for Boya Capital sent to Epstein in 2011. The sender emphasized that the fund had two extremely critical friends, John Zikson, former CEO of Pinyan Insurance, and Zhang Xicheng, the grandson of Jiang Zemin. The email also deliberately noted that Li Kexing, Hong Kong's richest man, had invested $100 million. Consider this. When Zhang Xicheng founded Boya Capital, despite his grandfather's stature, he was still a newcomer on the top tier of global capital markets. So why send this deck to Epstein? Because he needed Epstein's super-elite network, Western royalty, political and academic elites, to vouch for him. This exposes a harsh truth. The globalization of assets belonging to the CCP's top ruling families is deeply intertwined with figures like Epstein. In the past, many people likely viewed the Tsinghua University campus as the nation's highest academic sanctuary, an ivory tower, pure and untouched. Few would have imagined that in Epstein's files, it appears as yet another hunting ground, where he operated, influenced, and collected information. The story begins with a world-class mathematician, a fields medalist with major influence at both Harvard and Tsinghua, Shing-Tung Yau. Last year, Yau stated publicly that he had only encountered Epstein once, indirectly through colleagues, and had no real knowledge of who this broker truly was. But when U.S. Department of Justice records were released, that claim collapsed. The documents show at least a dozen email exchanges between Yau and Epstein, with frequent and engaged communication. The most striking episode occurred in 2016. That year, Yau sent Epstein an email marked Confidential, outlining an extraordinarily ambitious plan. Tsinghua intended to establish a campus in Boston. Yau told Epstein that the university leadership was treating the project with unprecedented seriousness. Even more notable, he brought another heavyweight into the plan, Ronnie Chan, younger brother of Gerald Chan, heir to Hong Kong's Hang Lung Group. Many people recognized the Chan brothers from the capital markets, early investors in Xiaomi and donors of $350 million to Harvard University. At the time, public opinion questioned why they donated to Harvard rather than to China. In reality, it was also a donation aligned with the CCP, so much so that Harvard's School of Public Health was renamed. The most conclusive evidence is internal email EFTA-01783697. Dated August 29, 2016, it was sent to Epstein by Li Jinlian, head of international cooperation at Tsinghua University, whose English name is Jack Jinlian Li. The email was marked Private and Highly Sensitive. It opens with the line, Jeffrey, President Chu Yong has asked me to write to you on his behalf. What followed was a progress report. Li wrote that he had finalized discussions with Harvard's Martin Nowak. Each year, Tsinghua's mathematics department would select two of its top PhD students and send them to Harvard's Program for Evolutionary Dynamics, PED, for three continuous years. And who funded the PED program? Epstein himself. In other words, the very best mathematical talents of Tsinghua, who would be allowed to go abroad, who would train at Harvard, had their progress reported to Epstein, a sex trafficking broker shunned by much of the American academic community. Intervening in the CCP's inner power struggles? In Epstein's worldview, nothing was beyond calculation, especially shifts of power at the very top of Zhongmenhai. In November 2012, just after the 18th Party Congress concluded and Xi Jinping formally took power, global media were still speculating about where this new leader would take China. So what was Epstein doing at that moment? He sent a brief but unsettling message to his longtime associate, David Stern, asking, did you see the New York Times article about Shendong's wife, Desmond Shum, the one surnamed Duan? Epstein was referring to Duan Weihong, later exposed in Red Roulette as the white glove fixer for the Wen Jiabao family. Stern replied quickly and bluntly. He told Epstein that the incoming leadership was planning a large scale internal investigation into the Wen family's asset network, an operation personally orchestrated by Zhang Zemin. The implications are explosive. Xi Jinping had assumed power only days earlier, yet this exchange already pinpointed the very first firestorm of the post-Xi era, using asset investigations as a pretext for internal purges, with a particular focus on the Wen family's overseas wealth. The documents further indicate this was a political deal arranged by Zhang Zemin to clear the road for Xi. Why was Epstein so interested in Wen Jiabao's asset empire? Because in the eyes of these financial predators, the collapse of an old power center and its asset system signals the opening of new money laundering channels and opportunities for asset reshuffling. CCP elites, after all, never stop being greedy. Epstein wanted to know, once Xi took power, whose hands would the overseas money once controlled by the Wen family's proxies flow into? Who would become the next god of wealth in the new power map? Fast forward to May 13, 2019. Zhongnanhai was suffocating with tension. The US-China trade war had reached a knife the throat stage. Xi had just overturned the negotiating table. Trump immediately slapped on 25% tariffs. Internally, party elders whispered, reformists observed cautiously, and Xi stood at a moment when his power was both bloated and fragile. At that exact moment, a message appeared on Epstein's iPhone that makes one's hair stand on end. When Xi Jinping and Wang Qishan are removed or forced to step down, we will destroy the cadres, insert our people, and carry out a major purge of all Western partners. Xi always believed he was using Epstein and JP Morgan to penetrate the United States and pursue his great power dream. But in Epstein's eyes, and in the eyes of the Wall Street titans behind him, Xi was never an equal partner. He was merely a well-fed steward, tasked with managing China's resources and wealth. When Xi was compliant and allowed Wall Street to jointly harvest China, everyone shared a so-called community of common destiny. Epstein helped select promising talent at Tsinghua and manage overseas assets for princelings. But once Xi embraced wolf-warrior diplomacy and threatened Wall Street's global interests, these cold-blooded predators turned on him instantly. Pay close attention to the word removed. By 2019, Epstein and those behind him were already quietly assessing the possibility of replacing Xi Jinping if this steward jeopardized the business. This was the darkest form of kingmaking—publicly helping Xi use anti-corruption campaigns to eliminate rivals while secretly selecting the next generation of representatives—our people, as the message put it. What they wanted was not a strong China, but an obedient colony controlled by Wall Street's proxies and continuously exporting benefits. So, what do you make of this bombshell known as the Epstein Files? One thing is certain, Chinese officials are probably not sleeping very well either. Leave your thoughts in the comments below. Thanks for watching and see you next time.