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“There are no winners in a trade war, or in a customs war,” XI writes in a chronicle published in State Media in Vietnam and China ahead of his visit to several countries in Southeast Asia this week.
In the chronicle he also writes that China and Vietnam can resolve disagreement around maritime demands in the South China Sea through negotiations.
Xi arrived at Vietnamese capital Hanoi early Monday morning. The trip to Southeast Asia is the president’s first official foreign trip for the year, according to the Chinese news agency Xinhua.
Xi will also visit Malaysia and Cambodia. The main purpose of the trip is to strengthen regional trade ties and find ways to counteract the high tariffs introduced by US President Donald Trump, writes Xinhua.