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US secretary of state Antony Blinken and China's president Xi Jinping during their meeting at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. Photograph: Mark Schiefelbein/AFP via Getty Images Secretary of state Antony Blinken has told Xi Jinping that the United States is seriously concerned about Chinese companies supplying machine tools that could help Russia’s military. But Mr Blinken declined to say after their meeting in the Great Hall of the People what action Washington would take if the exports did not stop. “All I can tell you is I was extremely clear about our concerns in some detail, but...