Getting away, making hay

Matt A. Fikse

Matt A. Fikse Jul 1, 2025

Feb 6, 2018

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                <h2><p>After sticking around to strike an admirably upbeat tone on the less than upbeat Boeing developments, Gov. Jay Inslee hopped a plane to Shanghai to join a trade mission that started without him. The governor's delegation already stopped in Beijing, where U.S. Ambassador — and former governor — Gary</p></h2>
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            <p>After sticking around to strike an admirably upbeat tone on the less than upbeat Boeing developments, Gov. Jay Inslee hopped a plane to Shanghai to join a trade mission that started without him. The governor's delegation already stopped in Beijing, where U.S. Ambassador — and former governor — Gary Locke joined them at a biomedical technology conference. Among other successes<a href="http://www.governor.wa.gov/news/releases/article.aspx?id=171&ref=dev.cascadepbs.org"> claimed so far</a> by the governor's office are inked deals with a Chinese investor to build foreign-student housing and with China's biggest motion picture production company to film in Washington state. The city of Bellevue <a href="http://www.bellevuewa.gov/bellevue-mayor-trade-agreements-china.htm?ref=dev.cascadepbs.org">says Mayor Conrad Lee </a>signed an agreement that paves the way for a major Chinese construction company to open an office there. Lee has aggressively promoted Bellevue as a city for international businesses. — J.C.</p>
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After sticking around to strike an admirably upbeat tone on the less than upbeat Boeing developments, Gov. Jay Inslee hopped a plane to Shanghai to join a trade mission that started without him. The governor's delegation already stopped in Beijing, where U.S. Ambassador — and former governor — Gary Locke joined them at a biomedical technology conference. Among other successes claimed so far by the governor's office are inked deals with a Chinese investor to build foreign-student housing and with China's biggest motion picture production company to film in Washington state. The city of Bellevue says Mayor Conrad Lee signed an agreement that paves the way for a major Chinese construction company to open an office there. Lee has aggressively promoted Bellevue as a city for international businesses. — J.C.

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By Matt A. Fikse

Matt Fikse-Verkerk (Twitter: @mattfikse) covered urban affairs, politics, tech, and business at Crosscut from 2009 to 2014. He lives in Seattle and works for a biotechnology firm in Redmond, WA.