Hanoi, Vietnam Chinas leader Xi Jinping began a week of diplomacy in Southeast Asia with a visit to Vietnam on Monday, signaling China’s commitment to world trade, just after US President Donald Trump overturned the world economy with his latest prices.
Although Trump has interrupted certain prices, China was the aberrant value, because it maintained 145% tariffs on the second economy in the world.
The visit of XIS this week allows China to show in Southeast Asia, it is a superpower responsible in the way that contrasts with the way in which the United States under President Donald Trump presents around the world, said Nguyen Khac Giang, a scholarship holder visiting Singapores Iseasyusof Ishak Institute.
China can also work to consolidate its alliances and find solutions for the high commercial barrier that the United States has on Chinese exports.
There are no winners in a trade war, nor a pricing war, wrote Xi in an editorial published jointly in the official Vietnamese and Chinese media. Our two countries should resolutely protect the multilateral trading system, industrial and stable supply chains and an open and cooperative international environment.
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Although XIS’s trip was probably planned earlier, it became important due to the tariff struggle between China and the United States, the two largest economies in the world. In Vietnam, XI will meet the secretary general of the Vietnam Communist Party in Lam, as well as Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh.
The trip to Vietnam, Malaysia and Cambodia is all about how China can really isolate itself against the De Trump, said Nguyen, stressing that since Xi has become president of China in 2013, he only visited Vietnam twice. It is his third visit and comes a year after his last visit in December 2023.
The time of the visit sends a strong political message that Southeast Asia is important for China, Huong Le-Thu told the International Crisis Group. She said that, given the severity of Trumps prices and despite the 90-day break, the Nations of Southeast Asia were concerned that prices, if implemented, could complicate their development.
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XIS Trip is to show how opposite the United States is coercive and interested in the United States, there will be a lot of expectations on the type of leadership and initiatives that China will find at this time of crisis, she said.
Vietnam is experienced to balance its relations with the United States and China. It is managed under a communist system to a part like China but has had a solid relationship with the United States
In 2023, it was the only country that received American President Joe Biden and Chinas Xi Jinping. That year, he also improved the United States at his highest diplomatic level, such as China and Russia.
Vietnam has been one of the largest beneficiaries of countries trying to decline their supply chains from China, while businesses have moved here. China is its largest trading partner and the trade in China-Vietnam jumped 14.6% in annual shift in 2024, according to Chinese state media.
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But the intensification of the trade war has put Vietnam in a very precarious situation given the impression in the United States that Vietnam serves as a stolen door for Chinese products, said Giang, Singapores analyst Iseasyusof Ishak Institute. Vietnam had been affected by 46% prices under Trump's order before the 90 -day break.
China and Vietnam have real long -term differences. They have disputes in the territory in the Southern China Sea, and Vietnam faced the Chinas Coast Guard, but does not often publish confrontations.
After Vietnam, Xi should go to Malaysia then, then to Cambodia.
