Missing businesswoman urges ex-husband not to publish book critical of China

Re:Missing businesswoman urges ex-husband not to publish boo... by this_user on Monday September 06, 2021 @10:02PM (#28440048)

Or maybe this is a marketing ploy by the author. Terribly convenient timing that his ex-wife allegedly called him the day before his book was released and the day before he would talk to NPR about it. So now he could talk to them a day before about how he would talk to them the next day and generate some buzz and outrage amongst the audience that will translate into sales. Really convenient.

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Re:Missing businesswoman urges ex-husband not to publish boo... by exo-pla-net on Monday September 06, 2021 @10:24PM (#28440180)

I had the same suspicion. However, he says that his son and his ex's father both talked to her in separate phone calls. When multiple people have to keep their story straight, lies don't hold up. Thus, I believe it. Additionally, the CCP would have heard about the impending book from the surrounding press flurry, so the timing isn't strange.

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Re:Missing businesswoman urges ex-husband not to publish boo... by roca on Monday September 06, 2021 @10:06PM (#28440073)

If it's a marketing ploy, then the CCP can counter it easily --- let his wife leave China and --- when free --- tell the world that that conversation never happened.

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Re:Missing businesswoman urges ex-husband not to publish boo... by camillomiller on Tuesday September 07, 2021 @04:27AM (#28442378)

You give for granted Chinese govt has his wife. Based on what, exactly?

Why are we, an extremely logical crowd, so prone to embrace fundamental logical fallacies when it comes to China?

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Re:Missing businesswoman urges ex-husband not to publish boo... by roca on Wednesday September 08, 2021 @10:37PM (#28465591)

The alternatives where Whitney Duan is not in China seem implausible to me.

What's the plausible alternative? That Duan is not in China, and has simply been in hiding for years for unexplained reasons?

Or maybe, she's actually been dead for years and her ex-husband made up the phone calls to get publicity for his book?

The CCP has a long track record of disappearing people without trial. Jack Ma is the most famous/recent example. It's completely plausible that they've done the same to Duan, much more plausible than those alternatives.

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Re:Missing businesswoman urges ex-husband not to publish boo... by logicchains on Tuesday September 07, 2021 @12:21AM (#28440898)

FYI, the Korean peninsula is east, not north of China.

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Re:Missing businesswoman urges ex-husband not to publish boo... by rkk3 on Monday September 06, 2021 @10:32PM (#28440229)

Not sure why the timing is suspicious since the book publishing and press tour is literally the catalyst for everything.

Also these aren't especially novel allegations. Interesting to have such a cynical take on the individual but not towards the police state.

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