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...People close to the dealmaker believe his detention is linked to his former lieutenant Cong Lin, who Bao hired away from state-owned ICBC International in 2020....
...China Renaissance has been in turmoil since September, when group president Cong Lin was detained by Chinese authorities....
...China Renaissance executive Cong Lin was detained in September last year not long after the Shanghai branch of China’s securities regulator called in Cong for a “supervisory discussion” about alleged violations...
...The president of China’s top tech-focused investment bank, Cong Lin, a veteran banker who had run ICBC International, was detained in 2022....
...Wang’s travel freeze follows the months-long disappearance of tech sector dealmaker Bao, founder of investment group China Renaissance, and of Cong Lin, another of its former senior executives....
...The probe also involves the group’s former president Cong Lin. The whereabouts of both men remain unknown....
...There, he overlapped with Cong Lin, a former ICBC and China Renaissance executive who was summoned by China’s securities regulator a year ago, after which he left senior positions at China Renaissance’s...
...They include Cong Lin, who previously led the leasing department at Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, the world’s biggest bank....
...The group’s president, Cong Lin, was taken away by Chinese authorities in September, according to financial news outlet Caixin....
...In September, China’s securities regulator called in Cong Lin, the bank’s president and head of its securities unit, for a “supervisory discussion”....
...Cong Lin, a figure instrumental in that deal, later joined China Renaissance in 2020 and was until recently its president and head of its securities unit....
...The turmoil at the bank began in September when the group’s president, Cong Lin, was taken away by Chinese authorities, according to Caixin....
...(His wife, Li Mo-Hua, has often helped with this: “I’ve pulled off so many that my knuckles have become deformed,” she once said.)...
...Others close to Bao believe his disappearance could be tied to Cong Lin, the well-connected ex-ICBC banker and former president of China Renaissance, who was detained by authorities for a “supervisory discussion...
...Hours later, Hua Chunying, a Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson, repeated Russian defence ministry statements that Ukrainian cities would not be targeted in a briefing with reporters in Beijing and questioned...
...That is from the synopsis of an interesting new paper by Lin William Cong, Campbell Harvey, Daniel Rabetti and Zong-Yu Wu....
...In a briefing with reporters in Beijing hours later, Hua Chunying, a Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson, repeated Russian defence ministry statements that Ukrainian cities would not be targeted and questioned...
...Additional reporting by Maiqi Ding in Beijing, Gloria Li and Andy Lin in Hong Kong and Eleanor Olcott in Taipei...
...“I can’t breathe,” Ms Hua tweeted, repeating the words that Floyd shouted to the police officer before he died....
...Shenzhen-based Lin Yong Hua taught himself watchmaking and produced his first watch in 2006....
...China’s ambassador to Canada, Cong Peiwu, warned Canada of “very firm countermeasures” if any sanctions are imposed....
...Beginning with a Neolithic ritual jade cong of the Liangzhu culture of around 3300-2000 BC, and outstanding, complex archaic ritual bronzes, such as a Shang you (a lidded vessel) of around 1650-1500 BC,...
...“The cards are being dealt right now,” said Rong Hua, an investor in rival Xiaoming Bike. “There are 10 players now but only three will remain.”...
...However, Lin Minwang, of Fudan University in Shanghai, sees the Dalai Lama’s trip as a deliberate provocation by New Delhi....
...Additional reporting by Luna Lin and Wan Li...
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