China's rare-earth gambit with Trump echoes Mao's 'protracted war'

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BEIJING -- When the U.S. and China entered a 90-day truce to a trade war that had rattled global markets for the past month, Hu Xijin, a former editor-in-chief of China's state newspaper Global Times, was quick to declare the winner.
"Outstanding!" Xu wrote on China's microblogging…

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