Updated: China’s Xi defends trade as Beijing seeks bolder global role

DAVOS, Switzerland — Chinese President Xi Jinping on Tuesday trumpeted the need for free trade and urged the world to “say no to protectionism,” delivering a strong rebuke to isolationist tendencies that helped fuel Donald Trump’s presidential election victory. Focusing on the “double-edged” impact of economic globalization in a speech that alluded variously to Charles […]