Born to Run
After capitalizing on China's crypto boom, Binance CEO "CZ" fled China just in the nick of time. But critics say he's been running ever since,...
Fall Guy
After the U.S. government started investigating ZTE for sanctions violations, the company's American General Counsel, Ashley Yablon, turned to the FBI and spilled the billion...
Friedland’s Revenge
Robert Friedland says the renewable energy transition won’t be achieved without people like him digging up the critical metals needed “to electrify the world economy.”...
Hard Knocks
Last summer, when Beijing effectively banned private tutoring companies, an entire industry was wiped out in a single day. Yu Minhong, the CEO of New...
The Nickel Empire
After fluctuations in the nickel market caused Xiang Guangda to lose $8 billion, we take a look at his other big bets.
The Thornton Touch
Since his retirement from Goldman Sachs in 2003, John Thornton has done everything in his power to be seen as a trusted intermediary between the...
The China Bull
Beijing's recent regulatory actions have erased over $1 trillion of market value from Chinese equities — a disruption that hedge fund billionaire Ray Dalio refers...
Game Over
The guanxi game has defined China's modern business culture — and no one played it better than Xu Jiayin, the CEO of Evergrande. Now, however,...
The Missing Mogul
Whitney Duan was one of China's most successful female entrepreneurs. She built multi-billion dollar developments and was closely connected to political elites. But in 2017,...
Hemmed In
Marjorie Yang has staked much of her textile empire on being socially responsible, and yet her firm, Esquel Group, ended up on the Entity List....
Peddling the President
Elliott Broidy’s scheme to lobby the president on behalf of Beijing came uncomfortably close to succeeding. That he got as far as he did, experts...
The Czech Man in China
Before Petr Kellner died last month, he was the richest man in the Czech Republic — in large part because of his Home Credit business...