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...In a rare display of domestic policy criticism, two prominent Peking University economists, Huang Yiping and Lu Feng, this month sounded warnings over Beijing’s plans....
...HNA’s chair Chen Feng and chief executive Adam Tan were taken into custody late last month. The grounds for their detention have not been revealed....
...The move by Chinese officials comes three years after co-founder Wang Jian fell to his death in Bonnieux, southern France, in what French police said was an accident....
...Wang Jian, their co-founder, fell to his death in France in 2018. Additional reporting by Emma Zhou in Beijing...
...Colin Huang, founder of Pinduoduo, exited the ecommerce group in March, while food delivery group Meituan is facing an antitrust probe....
...Zhang Bixuan, Beijing-based analyst for Jian Financial Information Technology Company, however, said that while investors do tend to pay less attention to company brands when investing in passive ETFs compared...
...Zhang’s resignation follows that of ecommerce giant Pinduoduo’s founder Colin Huang in March, whose departure also came as a surprise....
...HNA’s well-documented debt problems were compounded by the pandemic, as well as factional rifts following the death of a top executive, Wang Jian, in 2018....
...Wang Jian, co-founder and former chairman, fell to his death in 2018 while sightseeing in southern France....
...Colin Huang, founder of Pinduoduo, left the ecommerce group in March, while food delivery group Meituan is facing an antitrust probe....
...“The Hong Kong government is not capable of passing Article 23 legislation in the current atmosphere,” said Zhang Jian, a Hong Kong expert at the Shanghai Institutes for International Studies....
...I never heard the words ‘feng cheng’ before. I didn’t know that was possible.” Feng cheng means to seal the city....
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...Many employees have left since the sudden death last summer of co-founder Wang Jian, including five of the group’s eleven board members....
...co-founder Wang Jian in July....
...Chinese airline-to-finance conglomerate HNA Group said that co-chairman Chen Feng would absorb the duties of his colleague Wang Jian, who died in a fall in France this week, but left unanswered the question...
...“Wang Jian was the number one person in the actual operations of HNA,” said Shen Meng, director of investment bank Chanson & Co....
...He was one of the two trusted lieutenants of Chen Feng, who is really the talismanic leader of this company....
...HNA’s leadership was shaken in July when the group’s founder Wang Jian died after a fall while on holiday in France....
...Jian in July....
...“This crisis management system will reduce the risk of conflict in the region,” said Huang Dahui, a professor of Japanese studies at Renmin university in Beijing....
...Chen Feng, HNA’s co-founder, was assured at the meeting that his company was in a different category than Anbang, which regulators had deemed a systemic risk....
...HNA co-chair Chen Feng and chief executive Adam Tan flew immediately to Marseilles, joined soon after by Wang’s wife....
...Wang Jian slipped off a wall while touring a church in Provence in July, forcing co-founder Chen Feng to take a more hands-on role....
...China’s state media is trying to export its model of carefully controlled news, but Gao Bingchen, a Canadian-Chinese columnist who writes under the pen name Huang Hebian, says it is not a two-way relationship...
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