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Xi asks Starbucks' Schultz to help repair US-China ties

by Joe McDONALD
| January 17, 2021 12:03 AM

BEIJING (AP) — President Xi Jinping is asking former CEO Howard Schultz of Starbucks to help repair U.S.-Chinese relations that have plunged to their lowest level in decades amid a tariff war and tension over technology and security.

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