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.
Just as Donald Trump’s often fraught relationship with China has been in the spotlight since he secured his return to the White House, Keswick’s reign at the retail-to-real estate group was marked by twists and turns with the country.