Then Zhu said he would accept Hsieh's reciprocal invitation to go to Kaohsiung.
During the interview, Mr Zhu said he had more sex videos of officials and refused to hand them over to Chongqing police.
Zhu says he is looking for ways to open up a private industry park somewhere in Zhejiang that would provide a bridge for high-tech entrepreneurs doing business between China and America.
"Zhu said he knows the trip won't be easy, but he is amazingly calm, " says Fred Hu, head of Asia economic research for Goldman Sachs in Hong Kong and a former student of Zhu's at Qinghua.
Recalling a trip with American colleagues to Singapore a decade ago, Zhu says he was stopped and asked to wait for an hour at customs while his American colleagues were given a quick OK to pass through.
Instead, he died from a crushing sadness and disappointment after discovering that Zhu, whom he had courted as a handsome man with beautiful eyes, turned out to be a woman under her man's disguise.
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After Mr. Lei's ouster, Mr. Zhu says, he handed over the rest of the videos to the authorities, who assured him they would investigate.
In Beijing they call him Zhu Fengzi, Madman Zhu, as he crashes through the rickety communist superstructure in the name of reform, laying off millions of workers from state-owned enterprises, terrorizing corrupt officials, having smugglers shot.
WebEx does well winning business from cash-strapped new businesses but needs larger customers to reach Zhu's goal, he says.
At the same time, he was reportedly telling Zhu not to resign--his job was not over.
Zhu's parents died when he was young, and he was raised by an uncle who gave his charge 100 pieces of silver when it came time for the young man to go to university.
Ten minutes' walk up the valley from his two-room house he pointed out where the Zhu clan's palace once stood.
So Mr Zhu is presumably aiming for efficiency as he confronts his country's intertwined problems such as unemployment, deflation, flood damage, creaky banks and a wobbly state-enterprise system, to name just a few.
Mr Zhu has let it be known that he intends to stick to his plan to visit Japan immediately before or after an Asia-Europe meeting due to be held in South Korea in October.
But in 2006, Mr Zhu struck out on his own, realising he would be more content to publish his own scoops.
Zhu, 69, did not get where he is today through charm and bonhomie, although he can be warm and witty on the right occasion.
Zhu never disappeared from public view -- he wasn't purged as might have happened in years gone by -- but he did step back on certain issues.
With each new industry that he promises to open to foreign investors, and with each tariff he offers to lower, Mr Zhu increases the pressure on Chinese businessmen who fear, often with good cause, that increased competition would do them in.
Zhu's wife, Lao An, whom he met in secondary school, also studied engineering at Qinghua.
Mr Zhu has his enemies inevitably, since he has slashed away at corruption, bureaucracy, patronage and other evils.
Zhu is very conscious of his image, and he often quotes from stories about himself in the Western press--including their exact date.
While many Chinese who come to the U.S. eventually get U.S. citizenship, Zhu carries a Chinese passport (one reason that he is eligible for our list of China's richest).
But Dr Zhu wanted to be sure that that was truly what he had.
"A precondition for the summit would be Kim vowing to abandon the pursuit of nuclear weapons and return to the six-party talks, which he wouldn't do, " Prof Zhu says.
It was unclear whether Mr Zhu was being charged with any wrongdoing, though Mr Gao believed that Zhu was probably under pressure to release additional sex videos he had obtained from Chongqing.
With allegations of Chinese spying poisoning the air, Clinton turned down Zhu's offer at the last moment, unsure that he could get congressional backing.
Mr Zhu certainly appears relaxed, but even in economic matters, he has shown himself to be a conservative technocrat, deeply sceptical of unfettered markets.
Zhu Tieszhi, deputy chief editor of Seeking Truth journal, said he could not believe that Mr Xu had chosen this route.
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