{"id":12310,"date":"2025-04-27T20:10:06","date_gmt":"2025-04-27T20:10:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ireneeng.com\/?p=12310"},"modified":"2025-04-27T20:10:44","modified_gmt":"2025-04-27T20:10:44","slug":"dong-mingzhu-spy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ireneeng.com\/?p=12310","title":{"rendered":"Dong Mingzhu: spy theory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 70 years old boss\/chairman of <a title=\"Gree Electric\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gree_Electric\">Gree Electric<\/a> \u73e0\u6d77\u683c\u529b Dong Mingzhu (<span lang=\"zh\">\u8463\u660e\u73e0, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dong_Mingzhu\">1954<\/a>-) is in the hot seat lately, for her comment that she won&#8217;t hire overseas-educated employees, fearing they maybe spies \u62d2\u7528\u6d77\u5f52 \u95f4\u8c0d\u8bba. What was her motive:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>slipped the tongue \u8bf4\u6f0f\u5634\u4e86<\/li>\n<li>keep up her presence \u5b58\u5728\u611f, good or bad<\/li>\n<li>bounding herself closer to Gree<\/li>\n<li>free ad for Gree or herself<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>SMCP: Why does China\u2019s \u2018queen\u2019 entrepreneur Dong Mingzhu shun jobseekers educated overseas?<\/p>\n<p>Xinhua | \u00a0Dannie Pengin Beijing | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/science\/article\/3307918\/why-does-chinas-queen-entrepreneur-dong-mingzhu-shun-jobseekers-educated-overseas\">26 Apr 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Chinese businesswoman divides opinion by saying her company won\u2019t hire overseas-educated executives due to security concerns<\/p>\n<p>Dong Mingzhu (left), with President Xi Jinping at Gree\u2019s moulding plant back in 2018, has divided opinion with her latest comments about overseas educated jobseekers. Photo:<\/p>\n<p>Dong Mingzhu, a towering figure in China\u2019s business world, has ignited a heated debate with comments that her company would avoid hiring executives educated abroad because of the risk they might be spies and her preference for home-grown talent.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at a shareholders\u2019 meeting, the chairwoman of Gree Electric Appliances emphasised her company\u2019s commitment to cultivating leadership from domestic universities, expressing concerns that overseas-educated professionals might pose a security risk.<br \/>\nWhile her comments were not intended to be made public, a video of them leaked, highlighting China\u2019s deepening divide over the role of foreign-educated talent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 70 years old boss\/chairman of Gree Electric \u73e0\u6d77\u683c\u529b Dong Mingzhu (\u8463\u660e\u73e0, 1954-) is in the hot seat lately, for her comment that she won&#8217;t&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ireneeng.com\/?p=12310\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Dong Mingzhu: spy theory<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,142],"tags":[132,18],"class_list":["post-12310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category--opium-","tag-gov-","tag-things-chinese","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12310"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12315,"href":"https:\/\/www.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12310\/revisions\/12315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}