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China’s military identifies US and Japanese destroyers as ‘enemy vessels’
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China has waived its retaliatory 125 per cent tariffs on certain semiconductor imports from the US, according to a Caijing report.
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As Trump’s tariffs hit US allies hard, will China make inroads?
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