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    With anti-American movies and memories of the Long March, China digs in for a struggle bigger than the trade war

    by Robyn Dixon, Los Angeles Times May 24, 2019 4 minutes

    BEIJING - The 10-minute segment that ran on Chinese state television this week showed cadet trainees of the People's Liberation Army scrambling over towering walls, dragging enormous tires, crawling through mud and shouting motivational slogans as President Xi Jinping exhorted the academy to be ready to fight and win a modern war.

    The trade war with the United States went unmentioned.

    But the message was clear: Beijing is ready not only for a protracted battle over trade but also for what could be a much larger geopolitical struggle.

    Chinese media coverage of the trade war turned sharply nationalistic over the

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