Soros, Thornton, Hawke: New Book Details How Beijing Manipulated Western Elites Soros, Thornton, Hawke: New Book Details How Beijing Manipulated Western Elites Authored by Daniel Teng via The Epoch Times, Beijing’s highly secretive Ministry of State Security (MSS) leveraged and manipulated leading Western political and business elites to deepen the Chinese Communist Party’s influence around the world, …