Posted on 04/17/2025 7:55:59 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
BANGKOK (AP) — Chinese leader Xi Jinping is making the case for free trade as he tours Southeast Asia this week, presenting China as a source of “stability and certainty.”
On Monday, he was welcomed to Hanoi with pomp and ceremony by Vietnam’s President Luong Cuong.
He arrived in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia’s capital, later Tuesday, for a three-day visit and will end his tour with a stop in Cambodia.
In Hanoi, Xi had a meeting with Vietnam’s Communist Party General Secretary To Lam, where he said the two countries “have brought the world valuable stability and certainty” in a “turbulent world.” He also paid respects at the mausoleum of Ho Chi Minh, the founder of the Vietnamese Communist Party.
“As beneficiaries of economic globalization, both China and Vietnam should strengthen strategic resolve, jointly oppose unilateral bullying acts, uphold the global free trade system, and keep global industrial and supply chains stable,” he added, according to a statement from China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
China and Vietnam signed a series of memorandums on cooperation in supply chains and a joint railway project, and Xi also promised greater access for Vietnamese agricultural exports to China, although few details were made public about the agreements.
U.S. President Donald Trump complained about the meeting, which comes days after his tariffs upended global markets and left governments across the world scrambling. Reacting to the meeting Monday, Trump said China and Vietnam were trying “to figure out how do we screw the United States of America.”
In Malaysia, Xi is expected to discuss a free trade agreement between China and 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nation, as Malaysia is chair of the association this year. Xi will meet with King Sultan Ibrahim on Wednesday morning and Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim later in the day.
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“As of 2022, China’s trade-weighted average tariff rate on imports from the United States was approximately 11.8%. This figure reflects the weighted average of tariff rates applied to various U.S. goods imported into China, considering the value of each product category. These tariffs were part of China’s retaliatory measures in response to U.S. Section 301 tariffs imposed during the trade dispute between the two nations.
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In comparison, China’s most-favored-nation (MFN) weighted average tariff rate across all countries was about 3.29% in 2019. This indicates that, on average, U.S. goods faced significantly higher tariffs than those from other countries.”
Viet Nam is not your friend.
It does seem that for the first time in forever China actually seems rattled by what Trump is doing. Nobody can replace the US marketplace
“have brought the world valuable stability and certainty” in a “turbulent world.” “
Yes, you guys bring slavery and death.
I’ll take my American “kitty cat herding”, and
personal defense over you system any day
The leader of China is speaking bullshit.
The Chinese only want to sell and never buy.
Free Trade is one thing....Fair Trade is another. China makes up crazy rules that keep us from importing.
Bkmk
China: Rules for thee and not for me.
...and then there's that "covid" thingy...that CERTAINLY made a lot of people "STABLE".
Xi JinPing looking for a front operation to pimp his country’s products.
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