“The president of the bank doesn’t decide what to say, where to go, who to see without party members, who are his right-hand men in his office, advising him,” Mr Pickard told The Australian Financial Review. “The president’s office runs the operations of the bank and the CCP guys, they run the president’s office. “The president would parrot the CCP party line, literally the party line, on a variety of different issues. Even when I knew he didn’t really believe in what he was saying, he would always toe the party line on things like the zero-COVID policy. “I felt…