Donald Trump’s shadow may be very elongated, and dominates Pedro Sánchez’s journey to Vietnam and China, two of the nations most affected by the tariffs imposed by the president of the United States. In his first public intervention in Hanói, capital of Vietnam, in a gathering with the prime minister of this nation, Pham Minh Chinh, Sánchez has been very clear: “No one wins with commercial wars, all countries lose and especially those who lose are the workers and the middle class of our countries.” “Vietnam and Spain share commitment to multilateralism to deal with the climatic emergency or the objectives of sustainable development. We are defenders of free trade to achieve our peoples’ development,” the Spanish president insisted. The Vietnamese chief has additionally launched the same message: “Vietnam and Spain must support this context full of challenges and difficulties. There are many challenges, we both value multilateralism and call international unity, and within it is Spain.”
The political message of the journey may be very clear: the 2 nations, as may also occur in China, are radically towards the tariffs raised by Trump and allied to face them on the lookout for business options and urgent the US to rethink their choice. However, every nation has a unique technique, and whereas China has opted for a direct confrontation with response tariffs, that are climbing the business battle between the 2 nations, Vietnam for the time being is choosing the negotiation with Trump as a result of its economic system may be very depending on this nation, with which it maintained a protracted battle of which is now 50 years outdated. Trump has put Vietnam tariffs of 46% and for now this nation has determined to not reply with others.
Prime Minister Vietnamese, a rustic nonetheless led by the Communist Party that gained that battle towards the South Vietnamese supported by the United States, recalled that confrontation that divided the nation and has launched a transparent message to Washington, which after a few years of collaboration now threatens the economic system of this nation. “We fulfilled the 80th anniversary of the foundation of our country and the 50 of the reunification. We face fascism and new imperialism. We managed to reunify the country, but we always feel the consequence of that war. Then we also face the crimes of humanity in Cambodia. We had more than 40 years of struggle. Now we also face many difficulties,” stated Min Chinh.
Sanchez additionally recalled that fiftieth anniversary of reunification, and subsequently the tip of the Vietnam War by which the USA, which left right here greater than 58,000 lifeless, was defeated. Things have modified lots since then on this nation with communist symbols all over the place and even a big Lenin park with its statue of the good ideologist of Soviet communism within the Hanói heart, however on the similar time overturned in commerce and the good capitalist industrial manufacturing of enormous multinationals of the United States as Nike and centered on export. Now Vietnam, in a mannequin comparatively just like the Chinese, has unstoppable development of which many Spanish corporations that accompany Sánchez on the journey need to take part.
Sanchez has insisted on constructive messages to the nation to hunt business and industrial alternatives, along with giant public works contracts for Spanish corporations. “Spain values the advances in development of Vietnam, and you want to accompany them. Spain and Vietnam are among the most dynamic economies in the world. We come to sign an agreement to walk towards a relationship even integral strategic. We want to strengthen our collaboration in sectors as important as agriculture and fishing,” stated Sánchez, who’s accompanied by the Minister of Agriculture, Luis Planas, and the outside, José Manuel Albares. The message in entrance of Trump and favor of multilateralism that’s questioning the president of the United States has been very clear, and is a part of the central axis of this journey that arrives in full tariff storm.
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