Where are China’s missing moguls? Since the start of the year, 39 Chinese business leaders have vanished into Liuzhi—a detention system created as part of Xi Jinping’s anti-corruption crackdown. Don Weinland, our China business and finance editor and Rosie Blau, co-host of The Intelligence podcast, discuss the extent of these sinister disappearances.
00:00 - Chinese bosses are being detained
00:50 - What is the Liuzhi detention system
02:08 - How many CEOs have disappeared?
03:14 - Why is Xi Jinping’s anti-corruption campaign increasing
05:15 - How else are businessmen being persecuted?
06:43 - High suicide rates among Chinese businessmen
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