- June 17, 2021
- Posted by: Stratford Team
- Category: Business
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Chinese President Xi Jinping, center, and lawmakers applaud during the closing session of the National People’s Congress on March in Beijing.
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For decades, U.S. officials, businesses, and organizations have urged China to adopt the rule of law. “China has a great future ahead of it,” U.S. Ambassador Gary Locke said in his farewell speech in 2014. To get there, he said, it needs “reverence toward the rule of law.” American chambers of commerce and business leaders like JP Morgan Chase CEO
Jamie Dimon
have long called for more rule of law in China, echoing the executive branch of the United States government. “For 30 years every president, regardless of party,” President
Bill Clinton
said in 2000, has pushed for a China that…