CHICAGO MAYOR MEETS CHINESE VP AMID TARIFF TIFF

Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, on a mission to salvage business deals threatened by a tariff war, said Thursday that Chinese officials expressed confidence they can survive the spiraling dispute with Washington. The mayor met with Vice President Wang Qishan and China’s commerce minister this week in an effort to lock in a $1.3 billion deal for a Chinese company to assemble rail cars in Chicago. The foreign ministry said Wednesday that China will take “firm and forceful measures” if President Donald Trump goes ahead with a second round of tariff hikes on Chinese goods in a dispute over Beijing’s technology policy. “They wanted to communicate, obviously, that this is not their preference,” Emanuel told The Associated Press.