Trump Urges Xi to Allow Visa Access to China Payments Market
US President Donald Trump makes a speech at a state banquet with China's President Xi Jinping at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on May 14.
Photographer: Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty ImagesUS President Donald Trump said he raised the issue of granting Visa Inc. wider access to offer payments services to Chinese consumers and businesses during a meeting with Xi Jinping on Thursday in Beijing.
“I said, ‘What about letting Visa?’” Trump said in an interview with Fox News. “We had the head of Visa there today, by the way. Visa is a big deal. I said, what about using Visa in China? For some reason, they were blackballed, and maybe that’ll come off.”