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Negotiators for the U.S. and China are facing off in Shanghai this week in another attempt to piece together a trade accord. While there are much lowered expectations for the kind of sweeping deal that appeared within reach this spring, modest wins might be obtainable. Those include U.S. insistence that China commit to legal changes to protect intellectual property and abandon state subsidies to business,