Five issues to watch as Xi heads to Washington for a Trump summit this week

CNBC’s China Connection, reporting from Beijing, says many in China sound more optimistic than those in the U.S. before Xi Jinping’s Washington summit this week, his first U.S. state visit since the Obama administration. Businesses expect talks on extending a trade truce expiring in November, building on a South Korea deal last fall to suspend rare earth export controls and retaliatory tariffs for a year and May pledges to buy more U.S. agricultural products and Boeing jets, as Washington’s concerns over the AI race grow.