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Before he goes to the White House on Friday, Chinese President Xi Jinping will host a meeting of tech executives in Seattle.

With the world's biggest internet market at stake, Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, and others may need China,

more than China needs them?

Can they demand that China protect their intellectual property rights?

Or can China make censorship and cyber attacks the cost of doing business?

And what's the role of the Obama administration, which is warned of possible sanctions over theft of trade secrets?

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Before he goes to the White House this week, the president of China will meet with the leaders of U.S. tech firms that are the victims of Chinese cyber attacks.

He reportedly wants an unlikely alliance against the Obama administration, which has threatened sanctions against China for cyber attacks and theft of intellectual property.

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