By Mark Pazniokas
In a late night conference call from China, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy today described his trade mission as an overdue effort to strengthen ties with a nation that has the world’s fastest-growing middle class and trillions in capital to invest.
“I don’t think we have competed on an equal footing with other states,” said Malloy, who told reporters he is one of a half-dozen governors visiting China in coming weeks.
Connecticut was one of the first states to establish a sister-relationship with a Chinese province, a relationship that brought Gov. William A. O’Neill to China in 1987 during the Reagan administration. The University of Connecticut offered an early acturial program in China.
“Quite frankly, we kind of dropped the ball,” Malloy said. “We do things, but we don’t do them consistently. We lose the advantage we might otherwise have.”
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