BREAKINGVIEWS-Trump-Xi summit augurs more risk than relief

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By Hudson Lockett

HONG KONG, May 6 (Reuters Breakingviews) - The US leader’s 2017 trip to Beijing was picture perfect but presaged the first trade war’s eruption. This time chips and rare-earth truces look set to hold firm due to mutual supply strangleholds, yet fresh tariffs and sanctions threats will loom over all-smiles photo ops.

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U.S. President Donald Trump is preparing to visit Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing on May 14 and 15. The former's first trip to China in eight years had initially been slated for late March, but was delayed after American forces launched a joint attack with Israel against Iran on February 28.


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