这一切都是因为当年$东方纸业(ONP)$不愿意出钱让CASON他爸的公司给他们写个推广报告。

Both Block and Regan lived in Shanghai, graduates of the University of Southern California who had become close friends after bonding over USC football. On this blustery day in January 2010, they were on their way to visit a small, New York Stock Exchange–listed company, Orient Paper, at the behest of Block’s father, William Block, who ran his own Los Angeles investment firm, WAB Capital. The older Block analyzed microcap companies and, if he liked them, published bullish research for a clientele of hedge funds and other money managers. The rub was that WAB got paid by the company — not investors — with warrants or restricted stock for the research and for introducing management to his investor clients. Some called him a stock promoter.

为了赚回他们的差旅费，他们开始先做空再发看空报告，从此一发不可收拾，干死了好多中概。
Block himself at the time was bleeding cash — he was majority owner and manager of a struggling self-storage company in Shanghai and could ill afford the time and expense of this trip to He Bei.