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Merkel woos China as Trump poses new trade challenge

German Chancellor Angela Merkel and China's President Xi Jinping. [Reuters]

China Thursday said it would "open its door wider" to German businesses, giving a warm reception to visiting Chancellor Angela Merkel, who has wooed Beijing to counter trade threats from US President Donald Trump.

Germany and China, two exporting nations that run large trade surpluses with the United States, have found themselves in Trump's firing line and are scrambling to preserve the multi-lateral order on which their prosperity rests.

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