Former U.S. President Bill Clinton said he’s impressed by China President Xi Jinping’s corruption crackdown and reforms to the one-child policy, but he also cautioned China’s new leadership not to intimidate smaller countries in disputes in the South China Sea.
Clinton spoke Friday in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou at a conference hosted by Pacific Construction Group, a private Chinese infrastructure builder that ranked this year as No. 166 on Fortune’s Global 500 list. (Fortune wrote about Pacific in its last issue.)
“If China and Japan are arguing over a couple of islands, the rest of the world can watch because we feel you’re arguing on more or less even terms,” Clinton said as a part of a Q&A with Pacific’s founder Yan Jiehe, after a question about the disputed Diaoyu/Senkaku Islands in the South China Sea.
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Scott Cendrowski, Fortune via CHINA US Focus http://ift.tt/1rDVkho
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