US-China trade war’s shift to export controls is music to Beijing’s ears

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Two days of talks in London between the United States and China have underlined that tariffs are no longer necessarily the primary theatre of operation in the trade war. The action has now shifted to the far more difficult issue of export controls, primarily on rare earth exports from China and technology exports from the US. That’s good news for China.Although details are lacking, the London negotiations resulted in a framework that purports to make at least some progress on the nettlesome...