Chinese President Xi Jinping has told Starbucks’ former chairman Howard Schultz that he and the US coffee chain can play an active role in promoting US-China trade cooperation, state media has reported.With less than a week before US president-elect Joe Biden takes office, Chinese state media published a letter Xi wrote, reportedly in reply to correspondence from Schultz, who has the honorary title of Starbucks’ chairman emeritus.The coverage of the letter on Thursday came almost exactly a year…

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