A container ship is seen at the port in Lianyungang, in China's eastern Jiangsu province on Thursday. | AFP-JIJI Huawei's CloudMatrix 384 system with Ascend 910 AI processors are displayed at the company's booth, at the expo of the World Internet Conference in Wuzhen town of Tongxiang city, Zhejiang province, China, in 2025. | REUTERS Beijing – When U.S. President Donald Trump ⁠met Chinese President Xi Jinping last October, he rated the summit a "12 out of 10," and the White House said China would "effectively eliminate" rare earth export controls and cease retaliation against U.S. firms. Instead, even as it has refrained from overt criticism of Trump over the Iran war and signaled it wants a positive meeting between the two leaders, Beijing has quickly moved to expand its toolkit of economic pressure mechanisms aimed at Washington.…