http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/836016.shtml#.UsqxRLTNldB
n December, former British prime minister Tony Blair traveled across
China giving speeches and meeting officials and business tycoons.
As
part of this tour, he appeared in Beijing along with Andrew Liveris,
chairman, president and CEO of the US Dow Chemical Company, and visited
Science and Technology Minister Wan Gang,
China Petroleum and Chemical Corp chairman Fu Chengyu and China
National Petroleum Corporation chairman Zhou Jiping, and discussed
cooperation on clean energy.
It's unclear whether the Dow visit
was entirely a coincidence. A 2012 report by the Financial Times alleged
that Dow had paid Blair, or Tony Blair Associates (TBA), his private
consulting company, for consultancy work.
These were just some of
his appearances in China after he left Downing Street in June 2007. And
he is not the only official to be involved in paid lectures and
activities after their government life.
On November 18, former US
president Bill Clinton made a keynote speech at the Caijing Annual
Conference 2014 in Beijing, calling for more charity engagement of
non-governmental organizations and for inequality to be reduced.
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