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Xi Jinping to visit Vietnam amid US-China tensions

Xi Jinping to visit Vietnam amid US-China tensions

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China's President Xi Jinping is on a tour of Southeast Asia, visiting Vietnam, Malaysia, and Cambodia, as part of an effort to position China as a stable alternative to the United States. Xi paid tribute to Vietnam's late revolutionary leader Ho Chi Minh, meeting with Vietnam's top leader, To Lam.

Xi Jinping
Chinese Communist Party
1. The successful delimitation of our boundaries on land and in the Beibu Gulf demonstrates that with vision, we are fully capable of properly settling maritime issues through consultation and negotiation.
2. Asia faces both unprecedented opportunities and challenges. China will ensure continuity and stability of its neighborhood diplomacy.
3. Our two countries should resolutely safeguard the multilateral trading system, stable global industrial and supply chains, and open and cooperative international environment.
Lu Daliang
General Administration of Customs
1. At present, my country's exports are indeed facing a complex and severe external situation, but the sky will not fall.
Karoline Leavitt
Republican Party
1. You'll have to talk to our allies who are reaching out to us. The phones are ringing off of the hooks. They have made it very clear they need the United States of America, they need our markets, they need our consumer base.
2. The president made it very clear: When the United States is punched, he will punch back harder.
Donald Trump
Republican Party
1. I don't blame China. I don't blame Vietnam. I don't. I see they're meeting today, and that's wonderful.
2. That's a lovely meeting. Meeting like, trying to figure out, 'how do we screw the United States of America?'
Scott Bessent
US Treasury Department
1. Everyone is coming to the table, and basically China is surrounded.
2. How do we get China to rebalance? That is the big win here.
Shi Yinhong
1. China of course desires this sort of coordination and cooperation, but its counterparts in ASEAN and Mongolia, let alone Japan and South Korea, are more concerned with avoiding damage to their respective negotiations with the U.S. about tariffs.
Mikko Huotari
1. I think the trade dispute is a separate story from military affairs.
2. There may never have been a better time for a joint G7 and EU tariff policy toward China. But there may also never have been so much distrust between the U.S. and its allies. The U.S. no longer appears to be a reliable actor, and the only leverage it holds is brute power and coercion.
3. And that's a game Beijing can play quite well. This has to do with political systems. The U.S. is becoming more authoritarian, but it has significant internal forces that are difficult to control. China is better positioned. That doesn't mean the net suffering is less, but there's probably a greater capacity to withstand the pressure.
Rafael Dezcallar
1. The United States is trying to contain China's rise, and China is trying to do everything in its power to prevent the United States from succeeding in that endeavor. Structural rivalry is inevitable. The question is how it will develop at different levels: political, military, commercial, economic, technological, and also ideological.
2. As decoupling continues to advance, the situation will also become more unstable because the shared interests that served as guardrails will disappear.