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China: Xi comments don’t settle US dispute

BEIJING — China says President Xi Jinping’s pledges to cut import tariffs on cars and open China’s markets wider were not meant as an overture for settling a tariff dispute with Washington. State media on Thursday cited a commerce ministry spokesman as saying negotiations were impossible under “unilateral coercion” by President Donald Trump’s government.

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