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Inside Tencent's "Influence Empire," with Bloomberg's Lulu Chen

Sinica Podcast

CHAPTER

The First Coups With Naspers

There's a couple of other people that I want to talk about in a little bit. Wang Xin and Zhang Xiaolong, Alan Zhang. But one other character that shows up in the book is somebody I've known for a long time but your book was the first time I've seen an actual account of his role in some pivotal moments. David Wallerstein, who was a really young guy, just sort of an expat kicking around in Shenzhen,. or somewhere in southern China. He calls himself Darwin, and he has some albums that he's recorded with, some legendary musicians.

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