Hanoi:
Chinese President Xi Jinping paid tribute to the late revolutionary leader of Vietnam on Tuesday, his last day of Hanoi’s visit, President Donald Trump said the goal was to “screw” the United States.
Xi is as part of a South East Asia tour in Vietnam which will include Malaysia and Cambodia, Beijing tried to bring himself into a position as a stable option for Trump as the leaders face American tariffs.
According to the state media of Beijing, the Chinese leader called upon his country and Vietnam on Monday to “oppose unilateral bullying and maintain the stability of the global free trade system”.
Hours later, Trump told reporters at the White House that the purpose of his meeting was to harm the United States.
“I don’t blame China. I don’t blame Vietnam. I don’t. I see they are meeting today, and it’s amazing,” he said.
“This is a beautiful meeting … like it is trying to find out how we screw the United States.”
China and Vietnam on Monday signed 45 cooperation agreements, including the supply chain, artificial intelligence, joint sea patrol and railway development.
Xi said in a meeting with the top leader of Vietnam for Lam on Monday that her country “stood at the turn of history … and should move forward with joint hands”.
According to the Vietnam news agency, Lam said that the two leaders “reached many important and comprehensive general perceptions”.
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On the last day of his journey, Xi laid a red wreath with his name and in the tomb of the late leader in Central Hanoi, “Long Live Vietnam’s great leader President Ho Chi Minh”.
It is also due to participation in the launch of Vietnam-China railway cooperation, announced this year-this year announced this year’s announcement will help connect the city of Vietnam to the border with China.
Xi’s journey comes after about two weeks of the United States – the largest export market for Vietnam, a manufacturing power station, in the first three months of the year – a global tariff put 46 percent of the levy on Vietnamese items as part of the Blitz.
Although the US tariffs have been stopped at Vietnam and most other countries, China is still facing heavy levy and trying to tighten regional trade relations and offset its impact during the first foreign trip of the year.
Xi placed Malaysia and then Cambodia on a tour on Tuesday on Tuesday, which “holds major importance” for the broader area, Beijing has said.
Xi had earlier urged Vietnam and China to preserve “multilateral trading systems, stable global industrial and supply chains, and open and cooperative international environment”.
He also reiterated the line of Beijing that “Trade War and Tariff War will not produce a winner, and there will be no protectionism in an article published on Monday in Vietnam’s major state-driven NHN Dan newspaper”.
Both China and Vietnam, ruled by communist parties, already share a “broad strategic partnership”, the highest diplomatic position of Hanoi.
Vietnam has long been followed by a “bamboo diplomacy” approach – trying to live in good words with both China and the United States.
The two countries have close economic relations, but Hanoi shared American concerns about the increasing vigor of Beijing in the South China Sea.
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