Behind the puzzle of China’s missing star
by Charlie Campbell/Beijing
Oct 01, 2018
3 minutes
IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN THE WEEK’S BIG CHINA story. After all, the new tariffs President Donald Trump slapped on $200 billion of Chinese imports marked a drastic escalation of a trade war between the world’s two biggest economies. And Beijing may well have wanted its retaliatory tariffs on $60 billion of U.S. goods to top the news agenda. But in China, there was a more burning topic: Where on earth is Fan Bingbing?
Fan, 37, is China’s best-known actress and the nation’s highest-paid celebrity for four
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