Chinese President Xi Jinping will travel to San Francisco on Tuesday for a high-stakes summit with his U.S. counterpart, Joe Biden, seeking the way forward for the strained ties between the world's two largest economies. It is a coincidence that San Francisco was the first stop of Xi's maiden trip to the United States decades ago. In the spring of 1985, Xi, at that time a county leader of Zhengding in China's northern province of Hebei, took his initial steps onto U.S. soil. Much like any other city visitor, Xi, a young man in his early thirties, had his picture taken with the Golden Gate Bridge. That trip helped Xi ... (full story)