Promoting China’s Economic Growth ‘At the Expense’ of Other Nations: A Jiang Zemin Legacy

U.S. President Bill Clinton (R) meets with Chinese leader Jiang Zemi in New York, N.Y., on Sept. 8, 2000. Joyce Naltchayan/AFP via Getty Images

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Immediately following the death of former Chinese Communist Party leader Jiang Zemin, numerous Western media outlets began to laud his efforts to open the Chinese economy to the outside world and create a “global economic juggernaut.”