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...Another 29 per cent of HNA Group held offshore has passed through a number of hands, including Hong Kong-based aviation businessman Bharat Bhise and Guan Jun, a Beijing man....
...Founder Chen Feng — who worked under Wang Qishan in the 1980s at an agricultural trust company channelling funding to the rural sector — and chairman Wang Jian each hold about 15 per cent....
...Nearly 30 per cent is split evenly between co-founders and co-chairmen Chen Feng and Wang Jian, with the rest in the hands of ten other executives or directors of HNA....
...Chen Feng, HNA’s founder, and Wang Jian, its chairman, each own just under 15 per cent of the business....
...Company executives say that stake — which passed from an aviation businessman, Bharat Bhise, to a Chinese man named Guan Jun before being transferred to the charity — represents “our shares” and that the...
...But HNA says Mr Guan is a “private investor” who does not work for the company. Chinese corporate registries list several other business addresses for Mr Guan....
...Last February Blackstone, which frequently sells to Chinese buyers, hosted HNA co-founder Wang Jian in a charity fundraiser in New York, featuring glitzy gold masks of Mr Wang’s face....
...Founder Chen Feng and chairman Wang Jian each hold 15 per cent of HNA apiece....
...“The global credit crisis of 2008 has shown that the big three players can no longer be relied on,” says Guan Jianzhong, chairman of the company....
...Adm Guan said that the “strange, on-again, off-again cycle” in US-China military relations was largely the result of US arms sales to Taiwan....
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