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The Tsawassen Mills buyer sounds, um, interesting.
Douglas Todd: Billionaire owner of three B.C. malls bares soul on China, scandals and her ‘horrific’ upbringing
Analysis: An attempt to discover what “the wealthiest woman in Vancouver,” Weihong Liu, plans to do with the Tsawwassen shopping centre reveals much more.
Published Apr 18, 2024
Dubbed “the wealthiest woman in Vancouver,” Weihong Liu has for years not talked to the mainstream media about what she has in store for her three new B.C. shopping malls, including Tsawwassen Mills.
However, Liu’s business ideas, plus a great deal more political intrigue, are revealed in a feisty and tear-filled Chinese-language interview she gave to a YouTube channel, in a program that now includes English subtitles and transcript.
In addition to spelling out her vision to have traditional First Nations performances at Tsawwassen Mills, Liu talks graphically about growing up in China “filled with horror” about an abusive father, her fantasy of becoming the prime minister of Canada, and her fondness for her adopted country, where she says she has never been discriminated against.
In the rambling, four-part, 2.5-hour YouTube program, Liu denies rumours in the Chinese community that her Canadian businesses are a front for the Chinese Communist Party elite, that she was once a mistress of a high-level Communist official, or is the niece of notorious Adm. Huaqing Liu of the People’s Liberation Army Navy.
Instead, she strongly criticizes China and some of its functionaries, including for overseeing a stagnant economy and having a lack of “self-criticism.” She says she “runs the risk of getting arrested” in the authoritarian country she left a decade ago. “All the wealthy people who can flee have already left.”
The extraordinary program was put together last year by 56 Below TV, a small YouTube operation run by Dong Nan. In it, Liu, who often repeats she doesn’t have a spouse, begins by showing off her magnificent new gated estate, with a 10,000-sq.-ft. mansion, on the University of B.C. Endowment Lands.
While giving a tour of her luxurious indoor pools and wine rooms during the program, she displays the replica chair of “the Queen of England” that she had built, saying it is “exciting to feel the wealth and power” when she sits in it.
“I have a Rolls-Royce. I have a Lamborghini. And a Mercedes-Benz,” she adds. When people maintain she is the wealthiest woman in Vancouver, she acknowledges she “feels it.” She also doesn’t contradict when it’s said others dub her the “wealthiest Chinese billionaire in Vancouver.”
Liu readily acknowledges that in China she was a leading member of many business organizations created by the Communist Party to advance the government’s schemes at home and abroad........
https://vancouversun.com/opinion/col...fic-upbringing
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