The insurance moguls Hank and Evan Greenberg both want better engagement with China. The way they argue for it, however, has some telling differences.
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In April 1999, Chinese Premier Zhu Rongji made a visit to Washington, D.C., to meet with President Bill Clinton. A few days earlier, the American president had delivered a speech voicing strong support for China’s admission into the World Trade Organization, a long held priority for Beijing. While acknowledging the Chinese Communist Party’s human rights abuses and other problems, Clinton stressed the hope that economic development would liberalize China.
“Is this a country to be engag
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