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China's Power Couples - The Story of Whitney Duan

Whitney Duan, one of China's richest women, vanished in 2017. Her ex-husband Desmond Sham is her ex-husband. He told me their story over a pub lunch in Oxford where he now lived. Whitney cultivated ties with the wife of China's former number two. She was often invited to tea inside Zhongnan High, the party's central headquarters.

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