On the campaign trail, President Joe Biden likes to take a hard thwack at corporate America.

Chinese leader Xi Jinping has called for closer trade ties with the U.S. during a meeting with top American business leaders in Beijing.

Republican presidential prospects are courting anxious donors and activists in Las Vegas , as the GOP's early 2024 class warns that former President Donald Trump is “a loser” and the party needs to turn elsewhere.

(AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)ATLANTA – The Georgia U.S. Senate runoffs don't take place until Jan. 5. And President Donald Trump has complicated the contest by claiming baselessly that the November election in Georgia was beset by fraud. Already, $329 million in advertising has been spent or reserved in the state since Election Day, according to data from the ad tracking firm Kantar/CMAG. While Biden’s campaign ran operations in Georgia until the Nov. 3 election, Senate Democrats’ campaign arm is in charge now. “People are very inspired by the Stacey Abrams magic,” said Michael Smith, a Los Angeles donor who has given to several groups raising money for the Georgia Democrats.

The event provides donors a chance to gauge how far Romney may go in possibly building support for a GOP coalition against Trump. Romney recently ratcheted up his attacks on Trump following a series of decisions by the President. Like other members of his party, Romney blasted Trump for abandoning the Kurds in Northern Syria. In 2011, Schwarzman endorsed Romney for president, citing his firm's first investment in 1985 when Romney helped Blackstone earn "16 times profit" on a joint deal with Bain. Most recently, the couple each donated the maximum to Romney's Senate bid in 2018.

Now, he's sharing what it takes to be a success in his book "What It Takes." But how did the son of a shopkeeper from Philadelphia become the confidant of heads of state? "Fifty years later, if there's an important meeting, I am on the edge of my chair and my back is completely straight," Schwarzman said. But that's OK, he said, because it's all about anticipating what can go wrong and heading it off at the pass. "You look at every major decision from the perspective of not what goes right but what goes wrong, what can hurt this?