If you want to know whether Dr. Li-Meng Yan was associated with Miles Guo, the most useful evidence is not rumor or secondhand commentary. It is her own public timeline.
And that timeline starts early.
The earliest post in this record dates to July 2021, and it already shows Yan treating Guo not as an ally, but as a hostile actor she believed was infiltrating anti-CCP activism in the United States.
July 2021: the earliest public accusation
Dr. Li-Meng YAN @DrLiMengYAN1
CCP agent Miles, WenGui Guo organized his followers to break in to my apartment! And he is bragging with photos taken by them on Gettr! That’s how CCP infiltrated America and gave real life-threats to people who fight for freedom!
This July 2021 post matters because it sets the tone from the beginning. Yan was not describing a working relationship with Guo. She was accusing him of organizing a break-in, bragging about it online, and using that episode as evidence of CCP-style infiltration in the United States.
Miles Guo himself published posts attacking Yan. One post was titled:
“Who Did Snake Demon Yan Run Away With? Two”
The phrase “Snake Demon Yan” is a derogatory label directed at Dr. Yan, while the title insinuates that she fled with someone else.
In a July 14, 2021 livestream on his official YouTube channel titled “Snake Demon Yan...”, Guo repeatedly attacked Dr. Yan, referred to her using the derogatory label “Snake Demon Yan” (蛇妖闫), stated that legal action had already been initiated against her, and, elsewhere in the broadcast, reportedly said he wanted to “send Dr. Yan back to Hong Kong.” These statements are difficult to reconcile with claims that the two remained political allies after July 2021.
It was partly translated into English here, here and here.
The July 14, 2021 livestream lasted approximately 111 minutes. It was not limited to attacks on Dr. Yan. Guo also targeted other critics, including retired U.S. Army Reserve Colonel Lawrence Sellin. The broader context suggests that the broadcast formed part of a wider public campaign against individuals who had broken with or criticized him, rather than reflecting an ongoing alliance with Dr. Yan.
Here is the original livestream conducted in Chinese by Mils Guo.
To many international readers, Guo’s reported statement about “sending Dr. Yan back to Hong Kong” may sound like ordinary political rhetoric. However, the context is important.
Dr. Yan left Hong Kong in 2020 as she feared communist persecution for her research and public statements concerning COVID-19. She subsequently sought protection in the United States.
Since 2020, Hong Kong’s legal and political environment has changed significantly following the implementation of the National Security Law. Human rights organizations have documented the prosecution, detention, and imprisonment of numerous activists, journalists, and political figures under the law.
Against that backdrop, a public statement suggesting that Dr. Yan should be sent back to Hong Kong could reasonably be interpreted as implying exposure to legal or political risks, rather than merely a change of residence.
In other words, the earliest public record here does not suggest proximity. It suggests confrontation.
Yan’s broader view of Guo
Yan later expanded that accusation into a much broader political claim:
Dr. Li-Meng YAN @DrLiMengYAN1
No, Miles Guo WenGui is NOT a good guy at all.
Guo works for Xi Jinping, pretending to be a dissident. So his emphasized “NEVER against Xi.” Guo helps Xi
• Remove Xi’s political opponents in CCP
• Set traps to real dissidents
• Create chaos & division in 🇺🇸
• Try to KILL Me!。。。。。
This is Yan’s own language, and it is unusually direct. She is not presenting Guo as a fellow traveler or a useful contact. She is accusing him of being a covert operator who pretends to oppose the CCP while actually serving Xi Jinping’s interests.
The structure of the tweet matters too. Yan does not hedge. She says Guo is “NOT a good guy at all,” that he “works for Xi Jinping,” and that he helps Xi by removing political opponents, setting traps for dissidents, and creating chaos in the United States. Whether one accepts those allegations or not, the point for this discussion is clear: Yan was publicly positioning herself against Guo, not beside him.
After Guo’s conviction
Yan returned to the subject again in a later post after Guo’s federal conviction and sentencing:
Dr. Li-Meng YAN @DrLiMengYAN1
Great news!
Miles Guo （AKA Wengui Guo, or Kwok) — a fake anti-CCP figure who, in reality, served Xi Jinping’s Operation Trust in the United States — was sentenced today to 30 years in federal prison for the massive fraud he committed under the banner of “anti-CCP.”
• The prosecution’s sentencing calculation even reached Offense Level 55 (capped at Level 43 under the Federal Sentencing Guidelines), underscoring the extraordinary severity of his crimes.
• Guo’s RICO enterprise, also conducted cognitive warfare under the guise of fighting the CCP—mixing CCP-desired false narratives into otherwise truthful information to poison the information environment.
• Lude and I were the first whistleblowers to report Miles Guo’s organization to the U.S. government and expose it as a fake anti-CCP operation engaged in unrestricted warfare. Today’s sentence is justice served.
• It is also a direct rebuke to those media outlets and individuals who echoed the CCP’s smears by falsely accusing Lude and me of being associated with Miles Guo’s criminal enterprise!
This post is especially important because Yan explicitly rejects the idea that she and Lude were associated with Guo. In her telling, they were the first whistleblowers to expose him to the U.S. government. She frames herself not as a participant in Guo’s orbit, but as one of the people who warned against it.
That distinction is the heart of the matter.
So, was Dr. Yan associated with Miles Guo?
Based on these tweets, the answer is no—not in any cooperative or allied sense.
Yan’s public record shows repeated accusations, not partnership. She described Guo as a CCP-linked infiltrator, a fake dissident, and a threat to her personally. The July 2021 post is the earliest and clearest sign of that stance, and it predates the later legal outcome by years.
If anything, Yan’s own words show a relationship defined by confrontation. She was not presenting Miles Guo as a collaborator. She was presenting him as the subject of her warnings.
The July 2021 tweet is an important chronological marker. By that point, Dr. Li-Meng Yan had already publicly accused Miles Guo of acting against her interests and alleged that his followers had broken into her apartment. In subsequent years, she repeatedly expanded those accusations, ultimately stating that she and Lude had reported Guo’s organization to U.S. authorities and rejecting claims that they were associated with his enterprise.
Against that timeline, continuing to assert after July 2021 that Yan was “associated with Miles Guo” requires evidence that outweighs her own subsequent public conduct and statements. Simply repeating an earlier narrative without addressing the later public record risks presenting an incomplete picture.
It is also notable that Chinese state media and affiliated outlets have, over the years, portrayed Yan as being tied to Guo and Steve Bannon as part of a broader effort to discredit her.
That does not automatically mean that everyone who repeats such claims is echoing CCP messaging. People may rely on outdated reporting, incomplete information, or independent reasoning. However, if someone continues, after July 2021 and especially after Yan’s repeated public denunciations of Guo, to claim that Yan remained associated with him without engaging with this contrary evidence, they are at minimum repeating a narrative that substantially overlaps with one promoted by CCP state media, regardless of whether they intend to do so.
