Chinese Investor Wants to Buy WSJ Now Because He's 'Very Good at Working with Jews'

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After failing in his attempt to buy The New York Times, China’s most awkward billionaire has now set his sights on The Wall Street Journal (and some bridge in California, too).

Chen Guangbiaodescribed by the South China Morning Post as a “recycling tycoon” who’s also one of the 400 richest people in the world’s largest country—really wanted to make the NYT his own before that “bid” was “undone by media attention.

He’s not done yet, though; he has some terrible quotes to entertain and amuse us all!

Today Chen told a New York-based Chinese station that he’s “investigating whether The Wall Street Journal is for sale” because of that whole Jewish thing.

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