Online reports, according to the Global Times quoted AFP as reporting on the 27th, U.S. President Trump called for criminal proceedings against financial tycoon George Soros and his son on the same day, citing the Soros family secretly funded violent protests across the United States. Soros is well known to many China for shorting the Thai baht in 1997 and triggering the Asian financial crisis. In addition, he also funded so-called "democratic forces" in many countries and incited "color revolutions." As a leftist, he has criticized Trump many times before.