More Executives Vanish in China, Casting Chill Over Business Climate - The Wall Street Journal
More Executives Vanish in China, Casting Chill Over Business Climate - WSJ
Nov. 9, 2023 7:10 am ET
SINGAPORE—The list of business executives and political figures who have gone missing in China keeps growing.
Top executives at a video-streaming platform and a pharmaceutical company were the latest to disappear, as an intensifying clampdown by Beijing on alleged corruption and malfeasance shakes business confidence in China, among local and foreign firms alike.
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