(task) Inside Rex Tillerson’s Negotiating Style: Cozy With Power, Unbending and Theatrical - WSJ

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> Inside Rex Tillerson’s Negotiating Style: Cozy With Power, Unbending and Theatrical
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> By
> Justin Scheck,
> James Marson and
> Bradley Olson
> Updated Jan. 9, 2017 4:32 p.m. ET
> MOSCOW—In the spring of 2014, after the U.S. punished Russia with sanctions for seizing Ukrainian territory, Rex Tillerson made a major decision. The Exxon Mobil Corp. chief executive, now Donald Trump’s nominee for secretary of state, would deepen his company’s longstanding partnership with the Kremlin.
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> During negotiations, the CEO of Rosneft, the Kremlin’s state-controlled oil company, looked over a proposed contract related to the pair’s operations off Sakhalin Island, in Russia’s Far East, and scowled, said a person...