Soon after Donald Trump and Xi Jinping met in Beijing early this month, Washington signalled that it was considering half a dozen enforcement actions to “fundamentally challenge Chinese trade practices”. Photo: AFP Soon after Donald Trump and Xi Jinping met in Beijing early this month, Washington signalled that it was considering half a dozen enforcement actions to “fundamentally challenge Chinese trade practices”. Photo: AFP
Soon after Donald Trump and Xi Jinping met in Beijing early this month, Washington signalled that it was considering half a dozen enforcement actions to “fundamentally challenge Chinese trade practices”. Photo: AFP
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Zhenhua Lu
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Updated: 1:07pm, 23 Mar, 2018

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Soon after Donald Trump and Xi Jinping met in Beijing early this month, Washington signalled that it was considering half a dozen enforcement actions to “fundamentally challenge Chinese trade practices”. Photo: AFP Soon after Donald Trump and Xi Jinping met in Beijing early this month, Washington signalled that it was considering half a dozen enforcement actions to “fundamentally challenge Chinese trade practices”. Photo: AFP
Soon after Donald Trump and Xi Jinping met in Beijing early this month, Washington signalled that it was considering half a dozen enforcement actions to “fundamentally challenge Chinese trade practices”. Photo: AFP
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