HONG KONG — China’s top leaders signaled confidence days before an expected escalation in U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariff war, while rolling out a welcome mat for foreign corporate executives.
In a speech to dozens of top executives from Apple, Qualcomm, Boeing and other multinationals, Chinese Premier Li Qiang struck an upbeat tone and vowed to step up policy support to achieve the government’s annual growth target of around 5%, even as the country confronts rising uncertainty in a fragmenting global economy.
