China’s President Xi Jinping “is scheduled to meet” key members of the US trade talks delegation, including US trade representative Robert Lighthizer and US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, in Beijing on Friday, according to sources close to the matter. “Xi is scheduled to meet both Lighthizer and Mnuchin on Friday,” one source who had been briefed on the arrangements told the South China Morning Post. A second source said that Xi is expected to meet the US delegation in Beijing this week, although the specific timing has not yet been confirmed. In addition, a banquet will be hosted for the US delegation in “a ... (full story)