HONG KONG -- As U.S. President-elect Donald Trump looks to fill his cabinet with outspoken critics of Beijing, he is confronting a potentially tougher rival: a China that has been girding for an intensifying conflict between the powers, even at greater economic cost.
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Chinese President Xi Jinping waits to meet with U.S. counterpart Joe Biden on the sidelines of the APEC summit in Lima, Peru, on Nov. 16. Beijing is now bracing for the return of Donald Trump to the White House in January. © Reuters
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