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Reasons for extramarital affairs are deep-rooted By Raymond Zhou (China Daily) Updated: 2011-05-27 08:01 Mid-life extramarital affairs are often aided and abetted by power and wealth, but their universal cause goes much deeper. And women from different cultures tend to cope differently. The revelations of Dominique Strauss-Kahn’s arrest and Arnold Schwarzenegger’s love child were big news in the West, yet they were totally eclipsed in China by Wang Gongquan wanting to dump his wife for a younger woman. “Wang who?” you might ask. Well, we asked the same question as Wang Gongquan was not exactly a household name. It turns out he is a wealthy venture capitalist with billions of yuan in assets, which he said he is willing to give up for a chance to live with the woman he loves, a billionaire in her own right. Now, nobody is denying the super-rich their right to romance. There is just this little inconvenience of an existing wife, whom Wang somehow managed to avoid mentioning in his Twitter-like announcement to the world. She is certainly no Maria Shriver as she has not shown up on any television talk shows. As a matter of fact, nobody has sought her out and asked for her side of the story. Yet, she undoubtedly belongs to the “first wives club”, to which Maria Shriver is inching closer and Anne Sinclair, a.k.a. Mrs. Strauss-Kahn, seems to resist with all her might. The three stories, though not identical, share similarities that point to the mid-life crisis of men with power and money. A dramatist could not have come up with three better story lines that run parallel with one another without any unnecessary overlapping and seem to draw a composite of middle-aged men in high standing. If we broaden the timeframe, there are indeed Chinese equivalents to what happened to the former IMF boss and the erstwhile Terminator. In May 2009, 44-year-old Deng Guida, a local official in Hubei province, forced himself onto a young hotel worker in an attempt to sexually assault her