From The Economist.

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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