The insurance moguls Hank and Evan Greenberg both want better engagement with China. The way they argue for it, however, has some telling differences.
Illustration by Luis Grañena
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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