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High-stakes sit-down follows months of tensions and tariff threats over China’s rare earth export controls

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President Donald Trump and Chinese president Xi Jinping have started what is expected to be three to four hours of high-stakes in-person talks in hopes of lowering the temperature of a simmering trade war that has threatened to boil over and upend the global economy.