Rex Tillerson shakes hands with China National Offshore Oil Corp. chairman Fu Chengyu. Credit: REUTERS/Susana Vera
Yahoo Finance: What the Chinese think about Exxon's Rex Tillerson
BEIJING, China — ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson’s expected nomination as the next US secretary of state is perplexing some informed business people in Beijing.
The questions take two different tracks. The first relates to Tillerson’s experience. “Is he qualified?” asked an executive in the banking industry. “It looks like Trump is filing up his Cabinet with people with no government experience.”
When I noted that this was not lost on Trump and was in fact part of his strategy, the banking executive responded: “Well, who knows if that will work.” (Because these individuals had not been authorized to speak by their companies, they requested their names not be used.)
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WNU Editor: The Chinese are not looking at Rex Tillerson right now .... they are looking at President-Elect Trump.
