The high-profile arrest of Huawei's chief financial officer, Meng Wanzhou, has thrust the Chinese mobile and telecommunications firm into the Western spotlight.
Most people know Huawei in the US and Europe for its well-produced line of smartphones that firmly compete with Apple's iPhone, Samsung's flagships, and Google's Pixel line.
Now US authorities are scrutinizing the Chinese company, and Meng in particular, for potentially violating its trade sanctions against Iran.
Meng isn't just Huawei's CFO, she's Chinese royalty. Her father, Ren Zhengfei, is the founder and CEO of Huawei and keeps an ultra-low profile despite his reputed massive wealth of $3.2 billion.
According to reports, Ren has been married three times, and produced a brood of sons of daughters, not all of whom are quite so media-shy.
Here's his youngest daughter, Annabel Yao, appearing at a debutante's ball in Paris in November 2018:
Here's a window into the lives of these crazy rich Asians:
Huawei founder Ren Zhengfei was born in 1944, and came of age just before Chinas Cultural Revolution began. Zhengfei is his first name, as surnames come first in China.
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Ren was born in Chinas poorest province, Guizhou. He told the BBC in 2015 that he came from a humble background. "We had salt to cook with so we were considered wealthy," he said.
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At the age of 30, Ren joined Chinas military as an engineer — a connection that still provokes questions about Huaweis ties to the army and the government.
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He's denied that the Chinese government has ever asked Huawei to spy.
Around that time, Ren married his first wife, Meng Jun and had a daughter, Meng Wanzhou, in the early 1970s, and a son, Ren Ping.
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Meng Wanzhou, also known as Sabrina or Cathy Meng, took her mothers surname while a teenager and worked her way up to become Huaweis CFO. She was arrested in Canada in December 2018.
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Little is known about her brother Ren Ping, also known by his mother's surname as Meng Ping, except that he works for a Huawei subsidiary and appears to have little interest in taking over the business his father founded, according to The New York Times.
The US authorities feared Meng was involved in covering up links between Huawei and a company that sold Huaweis kit to Iran, violating US sanctions.
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China has reacted furiously to Meng's arrest, demanding the US withdraw its arrest warrant.
Ren Zhengfei retired from the Chinese army in 1983 at the age of 39, according to his official biography, and after a stint working in oil set up Huawei in 1987. Thats 12 years after its main rival in mobile, Apple, was founded.
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Huawei has become the biggest electronics brand in China, and Ren Zhengfei is thought to be worth $3.3 billion.
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Ren also divorced his first wife not long after setting up Huawei, and married Yao Ling. The two had a daughter, Annabel Yao.
Judging by her Instagram, Yao is a fashionable socialite.
21-year-old Annabel Yao lives the life of a Chinese princess, attending the prestigious Harvard to study computer science. Shes also passionate about ballet and fashion.
Shortly before her half-sister Meng Wanzhou was arrested in Canada, Yao was attending a high-fashion debutante ball in Paris.
Here she is at the ball:
Le Bal des Débutantes is usually attended by children of the super-wealthy and famous. Previous guests include the daughter Ryan Philippe and Reese Witherspoon, and Silvio Berlusconis daughter.
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