In the evening he will go to Malaysia, the second stage in Southeast Asia
The Chinese president, Xi Jinping, paid tribute to the mausoleum of the deceased Vietnamese revolutionary leader I have Chi Minh in the center of Hanoi, on the second and last day of state visit to Vietnam, the first stage of the tour that will take him to Malaysia and Cambodia. With Beijing who wants to position himself in Southeast Asia as a reliable alternative to the tariff blows of the American president Donald Trump, XI, accompanied by the secretary of the Vietnam to Lam Communist Party, he has placed a crown of flowers, reported the CCTV state network, on which there was written ‘long life to the great leader of Vietnam, the president Ho Chi Minh’.
On Monday, the Chinese leader invited his country and Vietnam to “oppose unilateral arrogance and support the stability of the global free trade system”, in the report of Beijing state media. Hours later, the reaction of the Tycoon arrived who targeted the meeting between XI and Lam, accused of aiming to “fool” the United States. “I do not blame China. Don’t blame Vietnam. Don’t blame them. I see that they meet today, and it’s wonderful,” Trump said speaking with the media to the White House: “It is a wonderful meeting, it’s like trying to understand how we can cheat the United States of America”.
China and Vietnam signed cooperation agreements on Monday 45, including those on the safety of the supply chains, on artificial intelligence, on combined maritime patrols and on the railway development.
On this last point, Xi and Lam presided over this morning at the launch of the ‘China-Vietnam railway cooperation mechanism’ to the Hanoi International Convention Center which aims to create an 8 billion dollars project to connect the largest northern port city of Vietnam to the border with China.
XI also had talks with President Luong Cong, at the Hanoi presidential building: the two leaders, together with To Lam, also met the representatives of the friendship festival between the peoples of China and Vietnam. XI will move in the evening to Malaysia and then to Cambodia on a tour that “covers great importance” for the region, said Beijing on the eve.
