China White (comics)

China White
Publication information
Publisher	DC Comics
First appearance	Green Arrow: Year One #246 (October 2007)
Created by	Andy Diggle (writer) Jock (artist)
In-story information
Alter ego	Chien Na Wei
Notable aliases	Queen of the Pacific
Abilities	Expert martial artist, assassin.

China White (Chien Na Wei) is a fictional supervillain published by DC Comics. She first appeared in Green Arrow: Year One (Oct. 2007), and was created by Andy Diggle and Jock. White is primarily an adversary of Green Arrow in his early years.

Fictional character biography

China White was the leader of a drug cartel that dominated the South Pacific. She supplied heroin imports for the West Coast United States, Australia, Japan and the entire Pacific rim. Her base of operations was a volcanic island in Fiji. Many years ago, millionaire playboy Oliver Queen found himself manipulated into financing several of China White's operations, though he was unaware that he was secretly investing in a drug cartel. When Ollie's presence threatened to expose China White, she ordered the mercenary henchman Hackett to kill him. Hackett beat Oliver up, and tossed him over the side of his boat, the Pacific Queen. Ollie survived however and managed to make his way to the island. He discovered China White's poppy fields and learned that she had been using local villagers as slave labor to sow the fields. When she discovered that Hackett had failed to kill Oliver Queen, she ordered him to finish the job or else he would spend his last days being slowly eaten away in a rat-infested cage.

Powers and abilities

White was a formidable martial artist, and was rumored to be a great assassin.

Other Media

Television

Kelly Hu portrays China White in the Arrow live-action series. Introduced in "Honor Thy Father", China White is the leader of the triads in Starling City. China has been working with an export magnate named Martin Somers (Ty Olsson). Somers handles the triad's drug exports and imports, and in return China keeps Somers rich as well as protected. Unfortunately for Somers, Ollie has reason to believe that Somers may have been one of the conspirators who orchestrated the attempted assassination on him and the murder of his father. Arrow confronts Somers with his latest involvement in the murder of a young girl's father but Ollie fails to apprehend him. Somers contacts China White to take out the Arrow and deal with Laurel Lance who is prosecuting Somers. Arrow takes another shot at Somers after China tried to murder Laurel in her apartment. Ollie makes Somers confess to the murder and combats China to a standstill. China also made an appearance in "Muse of Fire, which introuced the Huntress, which had White and the Triad try to meet with Frank Bertinelli (Jeffrey Nordling) and his right-hand man, Nick Salvati (Tahmoh Penikett). "In "Dodger", White is hired by Moira Queen to kill Malcolm Merlyn, to which she accepts. In "Dead to Rights", White located Floyd Lawton (Michael Rowe) in a Bludhaven apartment, which offers him to job with a new eyepiece appliance. While at the banquet for Merlyn, White's Triad members shut down the power and White kills a guard, which has her in conflict with Arrow, which almost gets her killed.