If one of Chinese President Xi Jinping's main goals in visiting the United States was to project power for the folks back home, he'd be hard pressed to find a better event than his first public meeting here Wednesday.
There he was, at the head of a bright hotel ballroom facing down 30 powerful chief executives, talking about his country's economy in glowing terms, downplaying the difficulties China poses to American industry — things like cyberstalking, a volatile stock market, onerous regulations.
At least four men at the U.S.-China CEO roundtable are on the 2015 Forbes list of the world's billionaires.