Chinese President Xi Jinping told American and Chinese business leaders at a roundtable in Seattle that his government was committed to resolving tensions over market access and intellectual property, The Wall Street Journal reported. “China will open up still wider to the outside world,” Xi promised to executives from Amazon, Apple, Microsoft and Cisco. The Obama administration has been urging American firms to be more vocal about the problems they are facing in China, but Beijing has been using meetings with business leaders in Seattle to highlight the positive aspects of commercial ties while playing down tensions in other areas ahead of Xi’s Friday summit with US President Barack Obama.
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