US and ______ trade officials are meeting in ____ to lay the groundwork for Trump's ______ ____ to Beijing.

• A. Chinese, Paris, state visit
• B. British, Paris, state visit
• C. Chinese, Tokyo, trade mission
• D. Japanese, Paris, state visit

Answer: (A)

The key idea here is choosing terms that fit a high-level diplomatic scenario. US discussions with another country’s officials about a president’s travel plan naturally involve the counterpart as their trade officials, since it’s about bilateral economic and policy engagement. Paris serves as a common neutral venue for international diplomacy, making it a plausible meeting place. And the visit being described is a state visit to Beijing, which is the formal, high-level trip a president would undertake to another country, not a trade-focused mission.

So the best fit is: Chinese trade officials are meeting in Paris to lay the groundwork for Trump’s state visit to Beijing.