With the death of former Chinese premier Zhu Rongji, both China and the wider world have lost a great leader.
Zhu took personal risks for better US-China ties. He believed that productive Sino-American relations were good for China and for the world.
He was a global leader before China had achieved its current great power status. In mid-1990, when I was president of the National Committee on United States-China Relations, our organisation invited Zhu, then Shanghai mayor, to the United States….
