Xi pledges to strengthen ties with neighbours amid Trump’s tariff war with China

Experts have called on China to focus on expanding its domestic demand and increasing the commercial appeal of foreign products, thereby easing the existing geo-economics tensions with its neighbours and better countering the challenges posed by Trump, the Hong Kong-based South China Morning Post reported. Dylan Loh, assistant foreign policy professor at NTU Singapore, said while neighbourhood diplomacy has been an area that China has paid attention to, Xi has redoubled the efforts. “This attention is not a result only because of US-China relations, and in fact predates most of the tensions we see between the two countries. The competition has now injected an extra dynamic for sure,” he said.

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