Desmond Shum made a fortune in China, investing in Ping An, helping build Beijing’s Airport City Logistics Park and creating a hotel and business complex called the Genesis Beijing. His business partner was his ex-wife, Whitney Duan (aka Duan Weihong), a politically-connected billionaire who disappeared from the streets of Beijing in 2017. I met Shum in October 2012, while I was working on an investigation for The New York Times about the enormous wealth held by relatives of then-Prime Ministe
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Face-Off: U.S. vs. China
A podcast about how the two nations,
once friends, are now foes.