Ava Kaufman
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first heard Sep 2026
last heard 3d ago
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spiky head being regional slang for pain in the ass.
Guojun seemed to embrace this reputation.
In 2012, he told a Chinese newspaper, quote, I am someone who likes to meddle in other people's business and often offends people.
He may have offended the wrong people.
Around 2013, Guojun started moving his money abroad, investing in property in Southern California.
I wondered if this timing was just a coincidence.
Several people I spoke to suggested it wasn't, because 2013 was also the year that China's new president, Xi Jinping, announced a sweeping anti-corruption initiative to target senior Communist Party leaders and low-level bureaucrats.
And scores of Chinese elites and business leaders started shifting their money into American real estate.
don't know for sure if this is why Guo Jun left China and came to the U.S.
I tried to ask him directly and got a response from one of his attorneys.
He told me that the anti-corruption initiative was unrelated to his client's, quote, decision to pursue the American dream.
But by 2018, Guojun seems to have moved to the U.S.
full-time.
His first long-term residence was far more modest than the Arcadia Mansion.
It was a two-bedroom house in Roland Heights, another neighborhood in L.A.
County.
One evening, I drove out there with a Mandarin translator I'd been working with named Zimo Li, a student journalist and history major at UCLA.
And as we were heading over, she realized she'd grown up just a few blocks from Guojun's old house.
It's really crazy.
I used to live right there.
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