China investigates ‘princeling’ amid crackdown on finance industry

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Chinese authorities are investigating the financier son of Liu He, a former vice-premier and confidant of Xi Jinping who negotiated a trade deal with the first Trump administration, according to people familiar with the probe.

Seven people familiar with the investigation said Liu Tianran, whose father served as China’s economic tsar, was under investigation. Two…