Behind Wang Jianlin's global aspirations was a comedy of errors — one that China's next generation of entrepreneurs may want to avoid.
Illustration by Robert Neubecker
Lucas Wilson had only been at his new job for four weeks when he traveled from Australia to the Spanish island of Mallorca to host a private dinner for 24 luxury yacht owners. As the sun set over the bay where the Sunseeker yachts were moored, their owners — British and American tech entrepreneurs and restaurateurs — filed in for dinner at La Fortaleza, the 400-year-old fortress on the cliff.
“My job was literally to travel the world, looking for wealthy people,” Wilson recalled, look
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Taiwan is almost entirely dependent on imported fossil fuels for its power supply — a critical weakness in the event of a Chinese blockade. But the very democratic forces on the island that China would be seeking to destroy through forced unification are also standing in the way of the obvious solution: aggressive investment in nuclear power and renewable energies.
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