MURDOCH'S MAN IN CHINA

摘要

Few businessmen can boast of better connections with Asia's political elite than Gareth C. C. Chang. And boast he does. "I know Habibie very well," says Chang, referring to the President of Indonesia. "Vincent Siew is a very good friend of mine," he says of Taiwan's Premier. And most important of all, Chang knows both Chinese President Jiang Zemin and Premier Zhu Rongji. The ability to cultivate contacts in high places has served Chang's career well over the past two decades, first as point man for McDonnell Douglas' attempts to land big deals in China and Taiwan, and then at Hughes Electronics, where he helped set up a satellite-broadcasting operation in Japan. Now, the 55-year-old Chang, a U.S. citizen who was born in China, is tackling one of his biggest challenges yet: turning around Rupert Murdoch's Asian satellite network, Star TV.