US 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.
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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.”
