{"id":71051,"date":"2025-04-14T14:47:50","date_gmt":"2025-04-14T05:47:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/apr\/14\/no-winners-in-a-trade-war-proclaims-chinas-xi-as-he-heads-to-vietnam-on-charm-offensive"},"modified":"2025-04-14T19:55:04","modified_gmt":"2025-04-14T10:55:04","slug":"no-winners-in-a-trade-war-proclaims-chinas-xi-as-he-heads-to-vietnam-on-charm-offensive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=71051","title":{"rendered":"\u2018No winners\u2019 in a trade war, says China\u2019s Xi as he heads to Vietnam on charm offensive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Xi Jinping expected to present China as reliable partner in contrast to US, which imposed \u2013 then suspended \u2013 tariffs over 40% on some countries<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/live\/2025\/apr\/14\/donald-trump-tariffs-china-smartphones-computers-semiconductors-immigration-us-politics-live-updates\">US politics live \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Chinese president, Xi Jinping, warned there would be \u201cno winners\u201d in a trade war and that protectionism \u201cleads nowhere\u201d, as he began a three-nation trip to south-east Asia, starting in Vietnam on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Xi\u2019s tour, which started in Hanoi, also includes rare visits to Malaysia and Cambodia and will seek to strengthen ties with China\u2019s closest neighbours amid a trade war that has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/apr\/02\/trump-new-tariffs-liberation-day\">sent shock waves through global markets<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/apr\/14\/no-winners-in-a-trade-war-proclaims-chinas-xi-as-he-heads-to-vietnam-on-charm-offensive\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Xi Jinping expected to present China as reliable partner in contrast to US, which imposed \u2013 then suspended \u2013 tariffs over 40% on some countriesUS politics live \u2013 latest updatesThe Chinese president, Xi Jinping, warned there would be \u201cno winners\u201d in a t&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":345,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,361,50,558,557,70,3280,3279,47,430,42,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-cambodia","category-china","category-global-economy","category-international-trade","category-malaysia","category-tariffs","category-trump-tariffs","category-us-news","category-vietnam","category-world-news","category-xi-jinping"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/345"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=71051"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71051\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71055,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71051\/revisions\/71055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}