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Chris Patten A British Conservative party leader and the last British governor of Hong Kong who enraged China by pushing democratic reforms in the colony prior to the handover.
Robert Rubin The U.S. secretary of the treasury during the Clinton administration who advised Clinton to reject an agreement for U.S. approval of China’s entry into the WTO brought to Washington by Chinese premier Zhu Rongji in April 1999.
Gene Sperling The national economic adviser to President Clinton and the head of the National Economic Council from 1996 to 2000 who also advised Clinton to reject Zhu’s proposed WTO deal.
Chinese Businesspeople
Payson Cha Chairman of the Mingly Corporation Ltd. and one of the founders of China International Capital Corporation (CICC).
Fang Fenglei The vice-president of CICC from 1995 to 2000 who was the leader of the Chinese side of the joint venture and steered huge investment banking deals to Goldman Sachs because Morgan Stanley executives failed to take him seriously.
Pan Shiyi The chairman and co-CEO of SOHO China Ltd. who with his wife, Zhang Xin, established a new real-estate development model for China and struggled with blending Eastern and Western management systems in their company.
Tang Shisheng The powerful human resources director of CICC who rejected many of Morgan Stanley’s proposed executives.
Wang Boming A founder of China’s stock markets who turned to business and is now publisher of the investigative Caijing magazine that is setting new standards in Chinese journalism.
Wu Ying A founder of UTStarcom who successfully outmaneuvered China “telecom czar” Wu Jichuan to establish the “Little Smart” mobile phone technology across China, despite Wu’s disapproval.
Zhang Xin The co-CEO of SOHO China Ltd. who struggled to impose Western management systems in the company, but eventually acceded to her husband’s Chinese management ways.
Levin Zhu The son of Zhu Rongji and most recently head of CICC who turned the enterprise into the equivalent of a well-run state enterprise once Morgan Stanley withdrew from management of the venture.
Zong Qinghou The founder and chairman of the Wahaha Group who built a beverage conglomerate that challenges Pepsi and Coke in China by combining astute politics, clever marketing, and strict Chinese management practices.
U.S. Businesspeople
John Bruns The McDonnell Douglas China hand and troubleshooter in China who handled the export licenses for the machine tools that later led to a federal indictment. He was not implicated in the charges.
Gareth Chang The president of McDonnell Douglas Asia/Pacific who put together the company’s aircraft assembly facility in Shanghai and later headed Hughes Electronics International and oversaw its satellite launches in China.
Bob Hitt McDonnell Douglas production boss who oversaw the assembly of airliners in Shanghai and was indicted by federal prosecutors when Chinese partners diverted machine tools to a military factory. The politically motivated charges were later dropped.
Austin Koenen The third CEO of CICC who was making progress in soothing the company’s culture clash when he died of a sudden heart attack in Beijing in 1998.
Elaine La Roche The fourth CEO of CICC and longtime deputy to Morgan Stanley CEO John Mack.
Edwin Lim The first CEO of CICC and former chief representative for the World Bank in China who produced the first foreign studies of the Chinese economy in the reform era.
Rupert Murdoch The head of News Corp. and media mogul who gained access to the China market and helped modernize China’s propaganda machine only after convincing the Communist party that he was interested in making money, not trouble.
Jack Wadsworth The chairman of Morgan Stanley Asia in the 1990s and visionary creator of the joint-venture CICC investment bank with China Construction Bank.
Harrison Young The second CEO of CICC.
Chinese Media
Guo Chaoren The president of Xinhua when the state-controlled news agency