How the Virus Finally Killed a High Roller

摘要

As it bought and borrowed its way to becoming one of the country's most prominent private companies, travel and finance conglomerate HNA Group Co. sought to embody a new brand of Chinese capitalism: aggressive, unafraid of risk, and above all global, with assets and operations on every inhabited continent. Its co-founder and chairman, a devout Buddhist named Chen Feng, styled himself as a sort of Asian Warren Buffett, advocating a "harmonious" management style based on Confucian principles and boasting that HNA would one day be among the world's 50 largest corporations.