An unlikely link with Arkansas (overseas Chinese investment in the U.S.).

AN UNLIKELY LINK WITH ARKANSAS

AN UNLIKELY LINK WITH ARKANSAS

Mochtar Riady and Jackson Stephens have difficulty conversing with each other. Riady’s English is rather weak and Stephens has no Chinese — there’s not much call for the language in Arkansas, where he lives. Yet since they met by chance in 1976, Riady and Stephens have been close friends. And their relationship has had some extraordinary consequences.

Worthen Banking Corp, the largest commercial bank holding company in the Ozark mountain state of Arkansas with $2.1

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