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American business leaders are expected to host Chinese President stanley cup Xi Jinping at a dinner in San Francisco Wednesday after his meeting with President Biden at an international economic conference.The dinner, hosted by the U.S. China Business Council and the National Committee on U.S. China Relations, will take place during the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation Summit mdash; an annual meeting of 21 Pacific nations that account for about half of all global trade. It comes at a consequential time for the U.S. and China, which represent the first and second largest economies in the world, respectively, and are strongly linked by trade.Hu stanley cup ndreds of executives from varying sectors including banking and technology are expected to attend, and Xi is also ex stanley cup pected to speak at the dinner. The forum offers an opportunity for U.S. business leaders to directly engage with Xi, who has courted foreign investment to help boost China s slowing economy. Just this year, a parade of U.S. business leaders including Bill Gates, who met with Xi, have visited China. Elon Musk and JP Morgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon have also traveled to China. Chinese President Xi Jinping speaks during a meeting with US President Joe Biden, not pictured, during the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation APEC Leaders week in Woodside, California on November 15, 2023. BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images Kace Craig Turner, Tina Turner s son, dead in apparent suicide
NEW YORK -- Could this be the year of SantaCon without SantaControversy After several years of defending the massive, costumed Christmastime bar hop against a bad-Santa rap, organizers are making new efforts to convey that the SantaCon coming to town Saturday is growing - not throwing - up.For the first time, crocs they publicly released the planned route days before their romp through Brooklyn and downtown Manhattan bars. Organizers, who once shied from officialdom, started planning with police over a month ago, got a permit to assemble in a park and even agreed to tweet police messages about pedestrian safety. Performance art to some, pub crawl to others, SantaCon is trying to evolve as organizers face pressure to take more responsibility for revelry. It has ballooned in size to thousands of people and now is coming at a time of heighten yeezy ed concern about security and public gatherings. There s a transition to a more positive SantaCon, said Norman Siegel, a civil r nike dunk ights lawyer who has worked with the group since last year. Still, mixed feelings are as evident as dueling pro- and anti-Santacon signs in windows of businesses in Manhattan s East Village, and some officials are seeing red.CBS New York reports that some merchants on the Lower East Side plan to scrooge SantaCon by banning costumed drinkers from their businesses. Some businesses, like Tompkins Square Bagels, of the Lower East Side, have even posted signs letting the Santas