Risking veering off topic here, Miles Guo is a wanted rapist and scammer who fled to the West with a lot of money where he set up his China bashing media network, Guo Media, where Bannon occasionally cohosts his shows with him.
Guo's specialty is scamming self hating Chinks using his media reach and cryptoscams.
So here is an episode featuring both Bannon and Guo.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=xoMYsm81hVU
On topic, seeing how many of Epstein's associates badgered him with emails basically begging for money, it is plausible that Bannon is just being needy here. No real principles. He can be bought over for 30 pieces of silver.