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Many commentators in China are extremely excited about the launch of WeBank, and are all-too-ready to discuss how its creation could help transform the country’s banking sector.
Getting anyone at WeBank itself to talk about its potential is a much tougher task. Tencent, the Chinese internet giant that is its most illustrious shareholder, is famously secretive, despite being listed in Hong Kong, and rarely grants interviews to either domestic or international media.
Tencent’s wiry founder-chairman Pony Ma is bespectacled and publicity-shy, expressionless and pale, in many ways the embodiment of that western idea of Chinese inscrutability.
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