Bracing for Trump tariffs, China's Xi makes diplomatic push at global summits
By Eduardo Baptista and Lisandra Paraguassu Bracing for Trump tariffs, China's Xi makes diplomatic push at global summits RIO DE JANEIRO/BRASILIA, - In his first global meetings since Donald Trump was reelected to lead the U.S., Chinese President Xi Jinping went on a diplomatic offensive, hedging against expected new tariffs and preparing to exploit potential future rifts between Washington and its allies. “To position China as a defender of globalisation and a critic of protectionism, this calculated messaging comes at a time when many countries in the Global South fear the potential return of indiscriminate trade and tariff policies from the U.S., particularly under Trump’s influence,” said Sunny Cheung, associate fellow for China Studies at Jamestown Foundation, a think tank based in Washington DC. Shen Dingli, a Shanghai-based international relations scholar, said European allies of the U.S. would not "embrace" China if Trump’s protectionist policies were aimed at them "but there would be more cooperation". Shi also said that China's ability to invest and take advantage of costly Global South infrastructure projects was diminished due to its sputtering economy.
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