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China Tech Correspondent @FT based in Beijing email: eleanor.olcott (@) ft.com DM for alt contact
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This all reveals an eternal truth: a large chunk of the male population are singularly terrible at asking women questions.

There were so many glaring red flags in her background that some basic questions would have revealed.
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She follows in a long tradition of so-called Hunan rebels, or "provincial patriots" as historian Stephen R. Platt describes them. Wang Fuzhi, Zeng Guofan, Tan Sitong & Mao.

Also let us not forget He Jiankui, the Hunanese scientist whose illegal experiment resulted in the world's first gene edited babies.
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Never underestimate a Hunan country bumpkin.

#MaoZedong defeated the American-backed KMT and conquered China.

#AliceHuang slept with one American and helped vaporize a trillion dollars on Wall Street.

Mao needed an army. Alice needed a bed.

A century of progress in Hunan warfare.
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While Alice Huang was having an extramarital affair with Nvidia CEO, her husband Kang Wei was behind the scenes supporting her fundraise and secure chips. This was a family project, which also involved her sister.

He was her former boss at a private equity firm that she joined after a meteoric rise in finance, having first started as an assistant to a senior executive following a journalism career.

Lots more details, including on Kang Wei’s stock market violations and fall from grace at the @FT

ft.com/content/3238d9…
www.ft.com Alice Huang’s tangled web of connections Executive alleged to be Chinese spy who had affair with Nvidia chief had already built career alongside a man with a history of crossing regulators
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