french president obama is in china to drum up new business and blow the trumpet for free trade accompanied by other e.u. leaders he met his chinese counterpart xi jinping at a vast fair in shanghai against the backdrop of a trade war between washington and beijing. at the international import expo in shanghai my call and she raised a glass to global trade but behind the bar now many are deeper efforts to ease the tensions stifling global commerce the e.u. wants china to open its markets further despite repeated promises of reforms european companies are still disadvantaged in china now. creating new balance links requires that chinese market access procedures be accelerated to make more transparent to enable foreign companies especially innovative ones to establish themselves in china with confidence. of the question. she repeated his mantra about globalisation and opening up chinese markets to foreign