Published: July 25th, 2023,
Last updated: May 28th, 2025

Your ex-wife Duan Weihong used to be one of China’s wealthiest women. Before her sudden disappearance in 2017, she maintained close contact with high-ranking government cadres under Hu Jintao and Wen Jiabao. In your book „Red Roulette,“ you give a profound insight into the corruption and intransparency of a system in which even the most powerful can suddenly disappear, as is the case now with Foreign Minister Qin Gang, the most prominent case so far. Since you know the apparatus from the inside: What do you think happened to him?