China is reaching out to the world to conduct trade transactions as President Donald Trump pushes to quarantine the country by handing out massive tariffs.

So far, China has invaded Vietnam, Malaysia and Europe Trump’s tariffs are threatening to curb the economy of the world’s second-largest market. Trump’s tariffs What a thing A total of 245% of some products aims to discourage China by reducing access to the largest export partners and reducing the nation from other trading partners. sauce He told the Wall Street Journal Tuesday.

“This is the first time anyone in the outcome has risen up and said ‘No more,'” Stephen Yates, a senior national security policy scholar at the Heritage Foundation, told the Daily Caller News Foundation. “We will renegotiate the terms of engagement in a more equitable way than the interests of my country. There are some priorities you have to deal with.” (Related: Trump weighs tariffs as a tool to break China’s tensions over “critical minerals”)

Vietnam accounted for almost 4% of all exports from China in 2023, with a total of $135 billion worth of goods. According to To Observatory Station (OEC) data on Economic Complexity. Vietnam signature A trade deal with China during Xi Jinping’s visit on Monday will further strengthen relations between the two communist countries.

Vietnam is also a large US trading partner, exporting more than $136 billion in goods to the state in 2024. According to Our census data.

Malaysia won about 1.91% of all China’s exports in 2023, at a value of $65.5 billion. Xi Jinping is highlighted cooperation Between the two countries on Wednesday, Malaysia also supplies CCP with nearly 66%. crude oil Petroleum exports in 2023.

“We believe Beijing has advantages in its neighbourhoods, and Trump’s volatile policies are damaging America’s reliability and soft power in Asia,” Zhao Minghao, an international research professor at Hudan University in Shanghai, told WSJ.

China has also expressed interest in partnership Europe Among Trump’s tariffs, Beijing is the EU, the EU, the second largest trading partner behind the US. Considered Drop tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles and instead set the lowest price on the product.

China’s economy was already in a precarious position before the start of the trade war. This was partly due to the dire real estate market and the ongoing struggle to correct the rapidly aging population. Furthermore, China is struggling to find buyers of the large amounts of inexpensive goods that were once sent to the US.

Trump has signed Howard Lutnick’s Commerce Director General to investigate the possibilities and feasibility of new tariffs on “critical minerals” including cobalt, lithium and nickel.

“It appears that China believes that the US can survive unless it invests heavily in China,” Yates told DCNF. “After tariffs, Covid, fentanyl and other activities, it seems that the US and others don’t believe they may take seriously the supply chain rebalancing. So they’re not panic, they’re a bit arrogant when they ask me.”

The Department of Commerce did not respond to a request for comment from the Daily Caller News Foundation.

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