welfare plans: It brings 3,000-plus delegates to the ornate Great Hall of the People in Beijing for two weeks of speeches, meetings with senior leaders and political ritual to endorse the ruling Communist Party's economic and social welfare plans. ; A gathering of non-Communist groups held at the same time brightens Beijing's drab winter, drawing tech billionaires, movie stars and ethnic minorities in distinctive traditional dress, according to The Japan Times. That gives President Xi Jinping's government a platform for advertising changes aimed at ending the fight with President Donald Trump that has disrupted trade in goods from soybeans to medical equipment. The battle with China's biggest trading partner is overshadowing the National People's Congress, the country's highest-profile event of the year. The technology measure is part of a proposed law on foreign investment that aims to address complaints by Washington, Europe and other trading partners that China's system is rigged against foreign companies. Europe, Japan and other trading partners disapprove of the tariff hikes but echo U.S. complaints. Trump cited complaints Beijing steals or pressures companies to hand over technology when he slapped punitive tariffs on 250 billion of Chinese imports in July.
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