Farm-belt officials from both sides meet as US voters consider issues for midterms and Beijing detains US citizen
More than 200 representatives – including those from US battleground states such as Iowa, Illinois and Minnesota, as well as universities such as Harvard and Yale – convened in Zhengzhou, the capital of Henan province, according to Chinese state news agency Xinhua.
The Chinese side comprised officials from Henan, Liaoning, Anhui, Hunan and Shaanxi provinces, the agricultural heavyweights of the world’s second-largest economy.