{"id":71067,"date":"2025-04-15T10:34:17","date_gmt":"2025-04-15T01:34:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/apr\/15\/china-xi-jinping-vietnam-screw-donald-trump"},"modified":"2025-04-15T22:59:29","modified_gmt":"2025-04-15T13:59:29","slug":"chinas-xi-jinping-is-in-vietnam-to-figure-out-how-to-screw-the-us-says-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=71067","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s Xi aims to \u2018screw\u2019 US on south-east Asia tour, says Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US president issues scathing view of Chinese counterpart\u2019s motivations amid escalating trade war with Beijing <\/p>\n<p>Xi Jinping\u2019s tour of south-east Asia this week is probably intended to \u201cscrew\u201d the United States, Donald Trump has suggested, as Xi embarks on a five-day tour of some of the nations hardest hit by Trump\u2019s tariffs.<\/p>\n<p>China\u2019s president <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\">visited Hanoi<\/a> on Monday, where he met the leader of Vietman\u2019s Communist party, T\u00f4 L\u00e2m, called for stronger trade ties and signed dozens of cooperation agreements, including on enhancing supply chains, before heading to Malaysia.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/apr\/15\/china-xi-jinping-vietnam-screw-donald-trump\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US president issues scathing view of Chinese counterpart\u2019s motivations amid escalating trade war with Beijing Xi Jinping\u2019s tour of south-east Asia this week is probably intended to \u201cscrew\u201d the United States, Donald Trump has suggested, as Xi embarks on&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4695,"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":[41,50,415,70,3279,45,47,430,42,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-donald-trump","category-malaysia","category-trump-tariffs","category-us-foreign-policy","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\/71067","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\/4695"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=71067"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71067\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71090,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71067\/revisions\/71090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}