George Bronson Rea (1869-1936)

George Bronson Rea, an American engineer, journalist , publisher and later mercenary propagandist. Rea first published The Far Eastern Review in Manila in 1904 but soon relocated his head office to the International Settlement in Shanghai. Geo. Bronson Rea, as he was usually known, in his early days in China was sympathetic to the Chinese cause of resisting the foreign powers carving out their “spheres of influence”. In later years, however, he began to side with Japan’s growing power and finally in a final act of anti-Chinese treachery became an adviser to the Japanese puppet regime of Manchukuo