Jon Meade Huntsman Sr. brought us Styrofoam egg containers before his 30th birthday and the famed Big Mac "clamshell" sandwich container by his 40th, somehow finding time in between to serve in Nixon's White House. By middle age his close circle of friends included Margaret Thatcher, Singapore's Lee Kuan Yew, and Dick Cheney. Along the way he raised nine children: His eldest -- a former Utah governor -- is now the U.S. ambassador to Beijing, while son No. 2 succeeded him as CEO of Huntsman Corp., a global chemical company with about $8 billion in revenue.
Jon Meade Huntsman Sr. brought us Styrofoam egg containers before his 30th birthday and the famed Big Mac "clamshell" sandwich container by his 40th, somehow finding time in between to serve in Nixon's White House. By middle age his close circle of friends included Margaret Thatcher, Singapore's Lee Kuan Yew, and Dick Cheney. Along the way he raised nine children: His eldest -- a former Utah governor -- is now the U.S. ambassador to Beijing, while son No. 2 succeeded him as CEO of Huntsman Corp., a global chemical company with about $8 billion in revenue.
Fortune Senior Editor-at-Large Nina Easton traveled to China earlier this year and met with Jon Huntsman Jr., the U.S. Ambassador to China. Huntsman, a Republican and former governor of Utah, is fluent in Chinese. He also is well-versed in the language of business: His father founded Huntsman Corp., a Salt Lake City-based chemical company that ranks No. 293 on the Fortune 500 list of America's biggest corporations. Jon Jr. spoke extensively with Easton about U.S.-China trade issues, intellectual property protection, and the unintended consequences of China's runaway growth. Here are excerpts from that conversation:
Jon Huntsman Jr., 50, should have been safely ensconced for a second term in the Utah governor's mansion, enjoying his popularity with the state's voters and weighing his 2012 prospects as a GOP presidential nominee. Instead President Barack Obama astutely took a well-financed potential opponent out of the running by tapping him as U.S. ambassador to China. Now Huntsman, on the job nearly a year, is at the center of America's most important, delicate, and fraught economic relationship in the world.
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