He called on the Japanese side to treat China as a partner instead of a rival, and treat China's development as an opportunity rather than a threat.
He died two weeks later.
He believes one of the problems for some Western economies is that they are too reliant on their financial sectors, and therefore he does not feel that this is an example China should follow.
He attributed Heraeus' success in China to the country's reform and opening-up. Globalization, not tariff tensions, will help improve life, he said, referring to the ongoing China-US trade disputes.
He doesn't believe in the saying that any particular business is a sunset industry, based on his own lengthy experience in traditional banking. "Opportunity is always there in the market and we're always on the innovation road."
He continued that there will be no academic freedom in the UK if a college's president puts pressure on one of its fellows at the behest of British politicians.
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He called for providing new impetus to the fight against the pandemic, supporting the World Health Organization (WHO), and jointly building a regional "anti-pandemic firewall."
He called for stepping up the process of a political settlement of the issue with synchronized steps in a phased manner in order to realize a long-lasting peace and stability on the peninsula.
He expected that investment allocation to shares by banks' wealth management subsidiaries will increase gradually along with the improvement of their research and investment capabilities and enrichment of their client structures.
He cited China's notion of an ecological civilization and President Xi Jinping's idea that green is the new gold as a recognition that human well-being is not primarily — at least not only — about the gross domestic product.