US & China

Xi’s Red Line on Trump’s Export Curbs Threatens to Upend Truce

Xi Jinping

Photographer: Yan Yan/Xinhua/Getty Images

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Chinese President Xi Jinping has drawn a clear red line in a bid to stem new US export controls, threatening to reignite a tit-for-tat trade spiral with Donald Trump just weeks before a planned meeting between the leaders of the world’s biggest economies.