BEIJING: The European Union’s top commerce official was due in China on Thursday for talks aimed at bringing both sides back from the brink of a mutually damaging trade war. The EU last year ran a trade deficit of around a billion euros ($1.1 billion) a day with China, caused by what many in the bloc see as Beijing’s unfair trade practices. But Europe can ill afford to anger China in case it throttles supplies of rare earth minerals that are vital for the continent’s industrial sector. The two d
