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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(132,894 posts)
Tue Apr 15, 2025, 05:06 PM Apr 2025

Xi makes a case for free trade, presenting China as a source of 'stability and certainty'

BANGKOK (AP) — China’s Xi 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.

https://apnews.com/article/china-malaysia-xi-jinping-southeast-asia-tour-559757744cd48ca28a5171fe5071f9cc

Heckuva job Trumpy.

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Xi makes a case for free trade, presenting China as a source of 'stability and certainty' (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Apr 2025 OP
Trump makes China look like the good guy. Irish_Dem Apr 2025 #1
You got that right................. Lovie777 Apr 2025 #5
Trump is actually quite talented. Irish_Dem Apr 2025 #6
China will be the big winner D_Master81 Apr 2025 #2
Xi isn't wrong. Chump has made Hassler Apr 2025 #3
trump handed China world supremacy KT2000 Apr 2025 #4
Firefly was prescient MissB Apr 2025 #7

Irish_Dem

(79,854 posts)
6. Trump is actually quite talented.
Tue Apr 15, 2025, 06:07 PM
Apr 2025

He has been able to destroy a 250 year old democracy in a few months.
The most important, strongest, richest democracy in the history of the world.
And turn it into a third world fascist country.

Took some talent to accomplish that.

D_Master81

(2,344 posts)
2. China will be the big winner
Tue Apr 15, 2025, 05:10 PM
Apr 2025

The world is done with Trump and the US as much as they can be. They will still do business with us to a point cause it would be negligent not to, but the world will begin to move towards China over the next several years.

Hassler

(4,767 posts)
3. Xi isn't wrong. Chump has made
Tue Apr 15, 2025, 05:22 PM
Apr 2025

US totally unreliable, to friends and foes alike. We will be isolated from friends, like Canada, so our allies will turn to stable China.

KT2000

(21,950 posts)
4. trump handed China world supremacy
Tue Apr 15, 2025, 05:46 PM
Apr 2025

They will establish themselves as the monetary standard, leaving the US behind, They will rely heavily on the countries they cultivated over the last decades to hold onto manufacturing supremacy. They will use the plans and schematics of the US companies manufacturing in China to build trade supremacy with the rest of the world.
trump's hubris was the gift that tipped the scales for China.
We don't even have allies now.

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