I mean, people generally don't reach the level of success required to do any of what she has, let alone all of it, without very rich parents, with access to, uhh, let's say "political capital"...

What the hell was her mum doing in America, in the first place, anyway?? Spying?? And if she was so keen on "American enterprise" and "bringing her daughter up American", why essentially buy her Chinese citizenship..??

Something doesn't add up, here. Like Soviet sleeper agents (at least in fiction)... The whole thing is very, very weird. Especially for someone "raised by a single, (first generation!!) immigrant mother"...