Donald Trump landed in Beijing on Wednesday demanding Chinese President Xi Jinping “open up” the country to corporate America as he sought to put stronger business ties at the heart of his visit for a two-day summit.
The call from the US president, who is being accompanied to China by top executives, came ahead of meetings on Thursday and Friday clouded by geopolitical tensions over Iran and Taiwan and by conflict over trade and technology that has strained ties between the world’s largest economies.