China’s Xi Jinping meets foreign CEOs to urge trade stability

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Xi Jinping has urged global business leaders to work together to protect supply chains at a meeting with a group of executives including Rajesh Subramaniam of FedEx and Bill Winters of Standard Chartered.

Amid a deepening trade war with the US, the Chinese leader told the group, which also included Pascal Soriot of AstraZeneca and Miguel Ángel López Borrego of…