How McKinsey Has Helped Raise the Stature of Authoritarian Governments
Source: New York Times
How McKinsey Has Helped Raise the Stature of Authoritarian Governments
By Walt Bogdanich and Michael Forsythe
Dec. 15, 2018
This years McKinsey & Company retreat in China was one to remember.
-snip-
About four miles from where the McKinsey consultants discussed their work, which includes advising some of Chinas most important state-owned companies, a sprawling internment camp had sprung up to hold thousands of ethnic Uighurs part of a vast archipelago of indoctrination camps where the Chinese government has locked up as many as one million people.
One week before the McKinsey event, a United Nations committee had denounced the mass detentions and urged China to stop.
But the political backdrop did not appear to bother the McKinsey consultants, who posted pictures on Instagram chronicling their Disney-like adventures. In fact, McKinseys involvement with the Chinese government goes much deeper than its odd choice to showcase its presence in the country.
For a quarter-century, the company has joined many American corporations in helping stoke Chinas transition from an economic laggard to the worlds second-largest economy. But as Chinas growth presents a muscular challenge to American dominance, Washington has become increasingly critical of some of Beijings signature policies, including the ones McKinsey has helped advance.
-snip-
Read more:
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/15/world/asia/mckinsey-china-russia.html