{"id":8801,"date":"2021-01-15T06:27:47","date_gmt":"2021-01-15T06:27:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/diplomacy\/article\/3117874\/starbucks-can-promote-us-china-trade-chinese-president-xi"},"modified":"2021-01-15T06:27:47","modified_gmt":"2021-01-15T06:27:47","slug":"starbucks-can-promote-us-china-trade-chinese-president-xi-jinping-says-in-letter-to-its-ex-boss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/01\/15\/starbucks-can-promote-us-china-trade-chinese-president-xi-jinping-says-in-letter-to-its-ex-boss\/","title":{"rendered":"Starbucks can promote US-China trade, Chinese President Xi Jinping says in letter to its ex-boss"},"content":{"rendered":"Chinese President Xi Jinping has told Starbucks\u2019 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\u2019 chairman emeritus.The coverage of the letter on Thursday came almost exactly a year\u2026\n