Chinas XI urges stronger commercial links with Vietnam in the midst of American pricing tensions

Beijing – Chinese President Xi Jinping April 14 called to stronger links with Vietnam on trade and supply chains in the midst of the disturbances caused by American prices, when he launched a three nations trip to Southeast Asia in the Vietnamese capital of Hanoi.

The visit, scheduled for weeks, comes when Beijing faces 145% of American functions, while Vietnam negotiates a reduction in American tariffs threatened by 46% which would apply otherwise in July after the expiration of a world moratorium.

The two parties should strengthen cooperation in production and supply chains, said Xi in an article in Nhandan, the newspaper of the Communist Party of Vietnam, was published before his arrival on April 14.

He also urged more businesses and stronger links with Hanoi on artificial intelligence and the green economy.

Under the pressure of Washington, Vietnam tightens controls on a business with China to ensure that goods exported to the United States with a Made in Vietnam label have sufficient additional value in the country to justify this.

Vietnam is an industrial and major assembly center in Southeast Asia.

Most of its imports come from China while the United States is its main export market. The country is a crucial source of electronics, shoes and clothing for the United States.

In the first three months of 2025, Hanoi imported goods 30 billion US dollars ($ 40 billion) From Beijing while its exports to Washington amounted to $ 31.4 billion, according to data on Vietnam customs, confirming a long -term trend in which imports from China correspond closely to the value and export oscillations to Washington.

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Mr. XI will visit Vietnam from April 14 to 15 and in Malaysia and Cambodia from April 15 to 18. He visited Cambodia and Malaysia last time nine years ago, respectively.

His trip to Hanoi, his second in less than 18 months, aims to consolidate relations with a strategic neighbor who has received billions of dollars in Chinese investments in recent years while China manufacturers moved south to avoid the prices imposed by the first Trump administration.

The two countries managed by the Communists are expected to sign around 40 agreements in several sectors, said Vice-Prime Minister of Vietnams, Bui Thanh, April 12.

Vietnams Top Leader in LAM, in an article published on April 14 IN State Media, said that Hanoi wanted to increase cooperation in defense, security and infrastructure, especially on rail links.

It was not clear if the agreements would be binding and would lead to financial commitments.

Vietnam has agreed to use Chinese loans to build new railways between the two countries, in a major confidence strengthening stage that would stimulate trade and bilateral connections.

However, no loan agreement has yet been announced.

Beijing is also looking for the approval of Vietnams for his Comac planes, who have so far had trouble finding foreign buyers.

On April 13The Vietnam Vietjet and Comac Budget Airline Company signed a memorandum of understanding in Hanoi, according to an invitation to the event seen by Reuters.

A Comac C909 regional plane with Vietjects livery and the Chinas Chengdu Airlines logo was parked April 14 at the Hanish international airport.

The content of the agreement has not yet been announced, but Reuters has reported in recent weeks that by virtue of a transfer project, Vietjet would rent two comac C909 planes, operated by the crew of Chengdu Airlines, on two national roads.

Despite solid economic ties, tensions often surface between countries on the disputed borders of the Southern China Sea.

Vietnams concessions in the United States to avoid prices can also irritate Beijing, as they include the deployment of the billionaire Elon Musks Starlink Satellite Communication Service in the Southeast Asian Nation, in addition to the repression of certain trades with China on a possible fraud on the rules of origin.

Vietnam, in recent months, has imposed anti -dumping tasks on several Chinese steel products and has ended a tax exemption for low -value packages, in a decision that government officials have described as intended to reduce the influx of cheap Chinese goods.

The other two countries of Mr. Xis Asia from the Southeast Cambodia route and Malaysia are faced with 49% and 24%, respectively, and have already started hand in the United States to seek a stay. Reuters

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