As soon as details started to trickle out from Monday’s meeting between China‘s President Xi Jinping and leading business executives, Chinese commentators pored over photos and video to figure out who got an invite, even making seating charts to figure out which companies were most favored.
For many, it looked like a long-awaited rekindling of ties between Xi and China’s private sector, a relationship that soured five years ago. Now, under threat from President Donald Trump and a more aggressive U.S., the two sides appear to have rediscovered their need for each other.
