HONG KONG -- As the world awaited the results of the U.S. presidential election this week, Henry Keswick, the fourth-generation scion of Asian-rooted British conglomerate Jardine Matheson, died Tuesday at 86.
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Henry Keswick, the Jardines scion who razed then restored China business
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A historic handshake with Chinese Vice Premier Zhu Rongji in Beijing in the runup to the Hong Kong handover in May 1997 was a “seismic moment" for Jardine Matheson and its Chairman Henry Keswick, according to a memoir by his late wife Tessa Keswick. © Xinhua/AP
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