Xi Jinping in Vietnam: “Protectiveness does not bring anywhere” | EUROtoday

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The protectionism “does not bring anywhere” and a commercial war will not see winners. In the middle of the commercial war with the US, the Chinese president Xi Jinping is preparing today to make his first trip abroad with stages in Vietnam, Malaysia and Cambogia to strengthen regional commercial ties with the duties imposed by Donald Trump. In an article on the main Vietnamese Nhan Dan newspaper, XI urged the two countries to “safeguard the multilateral business system, the steadiness of business chains and international provide chains and an open worldwide and cooperative surroundings”.

XI also reiterated the line of Beijing according to which “a business warfare and a tariff warfare is not going to produce winners and protectionism is not going to deliver wherever”, based on the text relaunched by the CCTV state network. And he asked for greater cooperation with Vietnam in industrial supply chains and a wider collaboration in emerging sectors through various regional initiatives such as Lancang-Mekong cooperation cooperation of Eastern Asia.

Furthermore, China claims almost all of the southern Chinese Sea, having disputes with Philippines, Malaysia, Vietnam, Indonesia and Brunei. During point XI he insisted that Beijing and Hanoi could solve the relative problems through dialogue. “We should adequately handle the variations and safeguard peace and stability in our area. With a ahead -looking imaginative and prescient, we’re totally in a position to adequately resolve maritime points by way of consultations and negotiations,” added the Chinese leader. The dragon is trying to present itself as a reliable stable and Trump’s unchanged stable and which first announced and then largely frozen for 90 days the ‘mutual duties’ sorts are partners, with the exception of China.

Vietnam was the largest buyer of Chinese goods from Southeast Asia, with a turnover of 161.9 billion dollars, followed by Malaysia, who imported goods for a value of 101.5 billion in 2024. Vietnam has long pursued the approach of ‘bamboo diplomacy’, trying to maintain good relations with China and the United States: with the two countries he has close links with the two countries. Cheap, but Hanoi shares American concerns about Beijing’s growing assertiveness in the disputed southern Chinese Sea.