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Shipping containers from China and other Asian countries are unloaded at the Port of Los Angeles in Long Beach, California on Sept 14, 2019.
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Washington's announcement of visa bans for Chinese officials linked to mass detentions of Muslims in Xinjiang - on the eve of a new round of trade talks - is a now-familiar tactic of raising the pressure in the hopes that Beijing will make concessions.
But applying such leverage only reduces the already-slim chance of any breakthrough when Vice-Premier Liu He meets his US trade counterparts - Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and trade representative Robert Lighthizer - on Thursday (Oct 10), Chinese experts said.
