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Xi Jinping Urged Worldwide 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 Charder.

The amid deepening Trade war With the United States, the Chinese leader told the group, which also included Pascal Soreriot from Astrazneca and Miguel ángel López Borrego from Thyssenkrup, that foreign business leaders should resist the behaviors that “repeat the watch” on history.

“We hope that everyone can take a wide and long -term view … and do not blindly follow the measures that disrupt the security and stability of industrial chains and global supply, but instead contribute to more positive energy and certainty in global development,” said Shi in the gathering in Beijing on Friday.

Putting the event in the great people hall a sign The second year in a row Xi held a carefully desirable meeting with senior foreign executives in the Chinese capital. The event was held last year exclusively with American business leaders.

The meeting came at the end of a week crowded for Chinese policy makers, who are making efforts to enhance relations with international business amid increasing tensions with the administration of US President Donald Trump.

The annual CEO of China, China Development Forum, was held in Beijing earlier this week, followed by the BOAO Forum for Asia on the tropical island of Hainan.

Beijing is trying to promote itself as a stronghold of stability in global trade, unlike the United States, as it launched Trump Successive waves of definitions On aluminum to cars.

The President pledged wide -scale mutual duties on American trading partners on April 2, threatening more turmoil in international trade.