New Delhi, Sept. 22 -- American companies should be celebrating. China is on the verge of a grand opening of its markets to them, claims Donald Trump. The president's meetings in Beijing in May with China's supreme ruler, Xi Jinping, yielded such a promise: it is just waiting to be "papered". This is the difficult part, Mr Trump admits. He may be hoping for that-and more-when he meets Mr Xi again in Washington on September 24th. Officials sounded positive after pre-summit talks on September 20th, at which the two sides formalised a "board of trade", proposed by the leaders in May, to identify possible tariff cuts.

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