20-12941-jlg Doc 73 Filed 01/21/21 Entered 01/21/21 22:08:12 Main Document Pg 1 of 3 UNITED STATES BANKRUPTCY COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK ---------------------------------------------------------------X : In re: : Chapter 11 : (Subchapter V) VTES, INC., et al., : : Case No. 20-12941 (JLG) Debtors.1 : : (Jointly Administered) ---------------------------------------------------------------X AFFIDAVIT OF PUBLICATION RE: NOTICE OF DEADLINE REQUIRING FILING OF PROOFS OF CLAIM ON OR BEFORE FEBRUARY 19, 2021 IN THE NEW YORK TIMES (NATIONAL EDITION) ________________________________________ 1 The Debtors in these Chapter 11 Cases are VTES, Inc., Savari, Inc., and Savari Systems Pvt. Ltd. The last four digits of VTES, Inc. and Savari’s federal tax identification numbers are 3188 and 9745, respectively. The last four digits of Savari Systems Pvt. Ltd. registration number are 8251. 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In an interview in 2019, her ty- Get a Bump In the go-go 1990s and 2000s, coon father described his admira- when the country opened up and tion for her demanding schedule let its economy blossom, the rest with studies and ballet lessons — On Twitter of society looked on in awe as as many as 15 hours a week in mid- these princelings posted videos of dle school. “They have high de- By DANIEL VICTOR burning money or posing next to mands on themselves,” he said of As President Biden completed his the family Lamborghini. his children. transition into the White House, In today’s China, though, the Ms. Yao, who graduated from Twitter and other social media mood seems to be shifting. The Harvard seven months ago, stud- companies were completing their pandemic has left the wealthiest ied computer science and danced own transitions of highly followed even better off, in China as else- with the Harvard Ballet Company. official accounts. where, widening an already In the documentary, she said she But the handoff wasn’t as seam- yawning gap between the haves “kept trying different things” af- less as it was four years ago, when and have-nots. The list of China’s ter feeling lost following gradua- President Barack Obama turned wealthiest families added $1.5 tril- tion before devoting herself to this over the keys of much of his social lion to their personal wealth over career path. She has since signed empire to President Donald J. 2020, according to the Hurun Re- with TH Entertainment, a promo- Trump. port, which tracks them. tion company based in Beijing. In 2017, Mr. Obama passed on of- China’s increasingly powerful Her media blitz was timed with ficial Twitter accounts to Mr. leader, Xi Jinping, has waged a her 23rd birthday, which was last Trump, along with its millions of campaign against corruption, jail- Thursday, and has already landed followers. Since then, Mr. Trump’s ing businessmen and officials who her a fashion shoot in the Chinese digital team used the accounts as deviate from the Communist Par- edition of Harper’s Bazaar, a cover megaphones for his administra- ty’s vision, which he has repeat- of OK and an appearance in an ad- tion’s agenda and built the fol- edly urged everyone to embrace. vertisement for Great Wall Mo- lower numbers higher: before Mr. Not even Jack Ma, China’s most JENNIFER GAUTHIER/REUTERS tors. Neither Ms. Yao nor TH En- Biden’s inauguration, @POTUS famous and, until recently, richest Meng Wanzhou, the chief financial officer of Huawei and Annabel Yao’s half sister, is under house arrest in Canada. tertainment responded to re- had 33.3 million followers, entrepreneur, has been spared the quests for comment. @WhiteHouse had 26 million, government’s scorn. Ms. Yao seemed to anticipate a @FLOTUS had 16.4 million and Discretion, not ostentation, has “I don’t think she will influence Huawei has become the focal after a company employee was backlash because of her back- @VP had 10.3 million. The @PO- now become the norm when it society,” Ms. Hung said in a tele- point of a geopolitical battle be- jailed for 251 days; he had sued ground. “I have some questions TUS account alone had nearly tri- comes to wealth. And judging phone interview. “I think she’s tween China and the United States the company for a bonus and was about the word princess,” she says pled in followers under Mr. Trump. from the public reaction, Ms. Yao’s way more influenced by Chinese as the Trump administration jailed for disclosing commercial at one point in the documentary, But this year, Twitter did not media blitz was anything but dis- society, especially the internet sought to curtail the country’s secrets, though the charges were which includes vignettes of dance carry over the followers of each creet. world. She just confirmed what technological advances. Ms. eventually dropped. It was a story and voice lessons, gym workouts account as Mr. Biden assumed “I think she’s a lightweight com- the Chinese public expects out of Meng, who was for years the pub- that brought to the fore the con- and meetings about developing control. Instead, accounts with pared to her sister,” said Hung rich kids in China.” lic face of the company, was de- cerns of a middle class increas- her brand. “People on the internet much smaller followings, mostly Huang, a cultural critic and pub- Ms. Yao is the youngest of three tained in Canada in 2018 on an ar- ingly facing economic hardship might call me a princess or some- created last week, were to be lisher whose mother once worked children of Ren Zhengfei, the rest warrant from the United for the first time after decades of thing, but will it cause some nega- transformed into the official ones. as Mao Zedong’s translator and hard-charging leader of Huawei, States, where she faces charges of explosive economic growth. tive emotions if I call myself a A little after noon on Wednes- English tutor. who has been compared to Steve financial fraud related to evading Ms. Yao, the daughter from Mr. princess?” day, @WhiteHouse shared its first With the documentary, Ms. Jobs for his role in building a com- sanctions against Iran. Ren’s second marriage, unques- In the end, they called the docu- tweet under the Biden administra- Hung added, Ms. Yao wanted to pany prized in China for its ability Ms. Meng’s fate throughout tionably grew up in privilege, per- mentary “Exceptional Princess.” tion, to 1.6 million followers. “To- fashion herself as a kind of Chi- to compete with big multinational what has turned into a long extra- haps more than her older half sib- In a publicity poster for it, she day, the work begins,” it said. Just nese Kardashian, embodying telecommunications companies dition process has soured views lings. She traveled widely, living sits with her arms folded and her after 12:30 p.m., Mr. Biden issued beauty and celebrity, entertain- like Cisco, Nokia and Ericsson. toward the United States. Chinese in Shanghai, Hong Kong and Brit- lips slightly pursed in a pout. She his first tweet from the @POTUS ment and entrepreneurship as she Ms. Meng and a half brother, officials have portrayed her as an ain, according to her own bio- wears black, thigh-high boots, dig- account. “There is no time to launched a career that seemed at Ren Ping, are the children of Mr. innocent victim of a highly politi- graphical descriptions. Her globe- ging a stiletto heel into an ornate waste when it comes to tackling this point still vaguely designed. Ren’s first marriage. The son is cized case to damage the com- trotting was such that she re- crown at her feet. the crises we face,” he wrote. Singer? Dancer? Model? The the president of Huawei subsid- pany. cently had to fend off the Chinese The transitions meant that the documentary doesn’t really make iaries that own hotels and import Public sympathy for the Huawei news media’s questions about her Claire Fu and Cao Li contributed Biden digital operation would it clear. food and wine. dynasty, however, slipped badly nationality, saying she was born in research. largely have to build new follow- ings from scratch, instead of get- ting a head start from its predeces- sor as Mr. Trump had. Twitter said it would alert users to the new ac- counts. On Inauguration Day, @Pre- Parler Tries to Survive With Help From a Russian Company sElectBiden, an account that has posted just once and had fewer By JACK NICAS have rebuffed Parler. Mr. Matze ture,” he said. “I could see them possible for Parler itself to acquire than one million followers, be- said in a court filing on Monday easily hitting 100 million members the necessary servers and related came @POTUS, taking with it Parler, the social network popular that “at least six extremely large or more in 2021 alone.” security infrastructure in a com- however many followers it had on with Trump supporters, is trick- potential providers” refused to Mr.