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April 21, 2025
China Tries Making Nice With World After President Trump Dishes Out Tariff Beating
By Wallace White (DCNF) - All News Pipeline
China is reaching out to the world to make trade deals amid President Donald Trumps push to isolate the nation by dishing out massive tariffs.
So far, China has made inroads withVietnam,MalaysiaandEuropeamid Trumps tariffs threatening to stifle the economy of the worlds second largest market. Trumps tariffs, which have now risen to awhoppingtotal of 245% for some goods, aim to cripple China by cutting access to its largest export partner and cut off the nation from other trading partners,sourcestold the Wall Street Journal Tuesday.
This is the first time that anyone of any consequence has stood up and said, no more,' Stephen Yates, senior research Fellow for China and National Security Policy at the Heritage Foundation, told the Daily Caller News Foundation. We are going to renegotiate the terms of our engagement in a way that is more fair to my countrys interests, and there are some priorities that youre going to have to address.
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Vietnam accounts for nearly 4% of all exports from China in 2023, totaling $135 billion worth in goods,accordingto the Observatory of Economic Complexity (OEC) data. Vietnamsigneda trade deal with China during Xi Jinpings visit Monday, further strengthening the two communist countrys ties.
Vietnam is also a large U.S. trade partner, exporting over $136 billion of goods to the states in 2024,accordingto U.S. Census data.
Malaysia netted around 1.91% of all Chinese exports with a value of $65.5 billion in 2023. Xi Jinping stressedcooperationbetween the two nations Wednesday, with Malaysia also supplying the CCP with nearly 66% of itscrudeoil exports in 2023.
Beijing believes it has advantages in its neighboring region and Trumps volatile policy is harming Americas credibility and soft power in Asia, Zhao Minghao, professor of international studies at Fudan University in Shanghai, told the WSJ.
China has also shown an interest in partnering withEuropeamid Trumps tariffs, with Beijing being the second largest trading partner with the EU behind the U.S. Recently, The EUconsidereddropping tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles, instead setting minimum prices on the products.
Chinas economy was already in a precariouspositionbefore the onset of the trade war, in part due to an ongoing struggle to fix a dismal real estate market and a rapidly aging population. Moreover, China is struggling to find buyers for its large sums of cheap goods it once sent to the U.S. en masse.
Trump signed an executiveorderWednesday directing Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick to investigate the possibility and feasibility of new tariffs on critical minerals, which include cobalt, lithium, nickel and others frequently used to produce advanced goods.
China seems to think it can survive without the United States making substantial investments in China, Yates told the DCNF. It doesnt seem to believe that after tariffs, COVID, fentanyl and other activities, America and others just might be serious about re-balancing our supply chains. So they seem to be not in a panic, but somewhat arrogant, if you ask me.
The Department of Commerce did not respond to the Daily Caller News Foundations request for comment.
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