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Barnama
5 days ago
- Entertainment
- Barnama
Guangxi's Baise City Deepens China-Vietnam Ties Through Cultural Exchange
KUALA LUMPUR, June 6 (Bernama) -- A series of cultural exchange events were held in Baise City, Guangxi, China, in April this year to mark the 75th anniversary of China-Vietnam diplomatic relations and the "Year of China-Vietnam Cultural Exchanges". According to the People's Government of Baise City in a statement, the activities aimed to promote mutual understanding and friendship, particularly among the younger generation, and to strengthen people-to-people ties between the two neighbouring countries. Baise City, which shares borders and close cultural ties with Vietnam, welcomed residents from Vietnam's Cao Bang Province, including participants from Cao Bang City, Trung Khanh District and Ha Quang District, to take part in the 2025 China-Vietnam Border Residents' San Yue San Festival Intangible Cultural Heritage Exhibition in Jingxi City. The event featured over 10 cultural programmes, including a China-Vietnam Youth Folk Music Concert at Jinxiu Ancient Town, where young performers from both countries jointly performed the song 'Vietnam-China'. A traditional costume showcase was also held at the Egret Spring Scenic Area, highlighting Zhuang ethnic attire and Vietnam's iconic Ao Dai in a scenic outdoor setting. The festival also included a speciality food exhibition, showcasing Vietnamese coffee, Chinese tea and local handicrafts. Youth participants engaged in a traditional embroidered ball-tossing event, using handmade balls from Jiuzhou Ancient Town in Jingxi. In Tianlin County, a Vietnamese art troupe was invited for the first time to perform at the opening gala of the 2025 Tianlin Zhuang Opera Festival. The troupe performed traditional Vietnamese songs such as 'The Road Home' and 'Gazing at the Moon, Thinking of You', alongside local Zhuang music performances. Meanwhile, Napo County hosted the 2025 Guangxi San Yue San · Napo Xiangdan China-Vietnam Border Residents Gala, featuring joint performances from both countries. Programmes included the 'Ao Dai and Conical Hat Dance' and a series of cultural showcases that reflected the ethnic diversity of the region. Other side events included a football invitational tournament, mountain song performances, and friendly competitions among border residents.
Barnama
5 days ago
- Entertainment
- Barnama
Guangxi's Baise City Hosts Series of Events to Promote China-Vietnam Cultural Exchanges
NANNING, China, June 6 (Bernama) -- The year 2025 marks the 75th anniversary of China-Vietnam diplomatic ties and the "Year of China-Vietnam Cultural Exchanges." Baise City of Guangxi shares borders with Vietnam and enjoys cultural similarities, with thriving cross-border trade and enduring people-to-people exchanges. In April this year, The People's Government of Baise City hosted a series of heartwarming and down-to-earth cultural exchange activities between China and Vietnam. These events effectively enhanced mutual understanding and friendship between the peoples of both countries, particularly among the younger generation, strengthened people-to-people bonds, and reinforced broader public support. In Jingxi City, Baise, residents from Cao Bang City, Trung Khanh District, and Ha Quang District of Vietnam's Cao Bang Province, along with domestic and international tourists, participated in the 2025 China-Vietnam Border Residents' San Yue San Festival Intangible Cultural Heritage Exhibition. Over ten featured activities showcased new chapters of friendship. During the festival, the China-Vietnam Youth Folk Music Concert was held at the ancient opera stage of Jinxiu Ancient Town in Jingxi, where young performers from both countries shared the stage and sang the song "Vietnam-China." The Egret Spring Scenic Area hosted a mountains-and-waters "T-stage show," featuring traditional Jingxi Zhuang costumes and Vietnamese Ao Dai dresses, creating a spectacular "fashion feast" against the picturesque landscape. In the specialty food exhibition area, Vietnamese coffee, Chinese tea, handicrafts, and other distinctive products were on display. At the embroidered ball-tossing event, young participants from both countries engaged in friendly competition using balls specially crafted in Jingxi's Jiuzhou Ancient Town.
The Star
21-04-2025
- Business
- The Star
Xi's visits to South-East Asia hailed as inspiring, strategic and timely
BEIJING: President Xi Jinping's recent trip to South-East Asia, his first overseas visit this year, underscored China's commitment to bolstering good-neighbourly relations and promoting mutually beneficial cooperation, analysts said. Xi visited Vietnam, Malaysia and Cambodia last week, demonstrating China's dedication to supporting multilateralism and international trade rules. Amid global challenges like trade protectionism and unilateralism, China's efforts to build a community with a shared future with its neighbours inject fresh energy into regional and global economic growth and stability, the analysts said. Throughout his tour, Xi reaffirmed China's commitment to fostering friendship and partnership with neighboring nations. In Vietnam, Xi said that building the China-Vietnam community with a shared future carries great global significance. In Malaysia, he said that China is ready to work with Malaysia to build a high-level strategic China-Malaysia community with a shared future. In Cambodia, Xi and Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Manet agreed to build an all-weather China-Cambodia community with a shared future in the new era and designated 2025 as the China-Cambodia Year of Tourism. Rujipun Assarut, a senior researcher at the Kasikorn Research Center in Bangkok, Thailand, said, "Amid US tariff tensions, President Xi Jinping's South-East Asia trip is a well-timed and strategic move signifying how China is willing to be a dependable economic partner while nurturing relationships in the advancement of mutual prosperity among the countries. "China and the countries have signed dozens of cooperation agreements, including deals on enhancing supply chains and railway cooperation with Vietnam and upgrading joint industrial parks with Malaysia. These will strengthen cooperation in supply chains and trade promotion between China and the region," he added. Nguyen Minh Vu, Vietnam's permanent deputy minister of foreign affairs, said the outcomes of President Xi's state visit are diverse and outstanding, with positive and long-term impacts on bilateral relations, according to a report by Vietnam News. Malaysian Minister of Foreign Affairs Mohamad Hasan told local media on Thursday (April 17) that Malaysia and China will set up a consultative council to coordinate the implementation of 31 bilateral cooperation documents signed between the two countries during Xi's state visit. Loh Wee Keng, chairman of the Malaysian Chamber of Commerce and Industry in China, said: "Twelve years ago, during President Xi's first visit to Malaysia (as president), he introduced numerous projects. This year's visit further enhances China-Malaysia cooperation, opening up more opportunities for businesses." He emphasised that as the United States' new tariff policy creates global economic uncertainty, Xi's visit to South-East Asia was timely and will bring more economic opportunities and stability to the region. Suthiphand Chirathivat, a professor emeritus of economics and former director of the Asean Studies Center at Chulalongkorn University, said Xi's trip conveyed the message that China wants to work together with Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean)member countries for an open dialogue. "Asean countries should take a pause and think about who should be trusted. It's obvious that the US only prioritises its own interests. As emerging economies in the world, China and Asean are important to each other and need each other," he said. "As economic and trade cooperation between China and Asean accelerates, trade and investment continue to grow steadily, and collaboration in industrial and supply chains is becoming increasingly close. After President Xi's trip, I believe such relations will grow even closer with stronger mutual trust," he added. Chhem Kieth Rethy, senior minister and chairman of the Economic, Social and Cultural Council of Cambodia, said he believes that the building of an all-weather China-Cambodia community with a shared future in the new era will be a moment of renewal for both countries. President Xi's visit inspired greater confidence regarding the cooperation and development between the two countries, he said. - China Daily/ANN
Saudi Gazette
14-04-2025
- Business
- Saudi Gazette
China's Xi hits out at Trump, says there are no winners in tariff war
HANOI — China's leader Xi Jinping said no one wins in a trade war as he kicked off a diplomatic tour of Southeast Asia on Monday, hitting out at President Donald Trump's latest tariffs moves. Although Trump has paused most of his "reciprocal" tariffs, he has kept in place 145% duties on imports from China, the world's second-largest economy. 'There are no winners in a trade war, or a tariff war,' Xi wrote in an editorial jointly published in Vietnamese and Chinese official media. 'Our two countries should resolutely safeguard the multilateral trading system, stable global industrial and supply chains, and open and cooperative international environment.' Xi's visit is a way for China to show Southeast Asia it is a 'responsible superpower" in the way that it approaches trade, compared to how the "US under President Donald Trump presents to the whole world', said Nguyen Khac Giang, a visiting fellow at Singapore's ISEAS–Yusof Ishak Institute. Xi was greeted on the tarmac by Vietnam's President Luong Cuong at the start of his two-day visit, a mark of honor not often given to visitors, said Nguyen Thanh Trung, a professor of Vietnamese studies at Fulbright University Vietnam. Students of a drum art group performed as women waved the red and yellow Chinese and Communist Party flags. While Xi's trip likely was planned earlier, it has become significant because of the tariff fight between China and the US. The visit offers a path for Beijing to shore up its alliances and find solutions for the high trade barrier that the US has imposed on Chinese exports. In Vietnam, Xi will meet with Vietnam's Communist Party General Secretary To Lam, his counterpart, as well as the Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh. 'The trip to Vietnam, Malaysia, and Cambodia is all about how China can really insulate itself against the from Trump,' said Nguyen Khac Giang. He pointed out that since Xi became the president in 2013, he has only visited Vietnam twice. The timing of the visit sends a 'strong political message that Southeast Asia is important to China,' said Huong Le-Thu of the International Crisis Group think tank. She said that given the severity of Trump's tariffs and despite the 90-day pause to "reciprocal" duties, Southeast Asian nations were anxious that Trump's policies could hinder their development. Vietnam is experienced at balancing its relations with the US and China. It is run under a communist, one-party system like China but has had a strong relationship with Washington. In 2023, it was the only country that received both US President Joe Biden and China's Xi Jinping. That year it also upgraded the US to its highest diplomatic level, the same as China and Russia. Vietnam is one of the biggest beneficiaries of countries trying to decouple their supply chains from China, with many businesses choosing to relocate to Vietnam. China is still its biggest trading partner, and China-Vietnam trade surged 14.6% year-on-year in 2024, according to Chinese state media. But the intensification of the trade war has put Vietnam in a 'very precarious situation' given the view in the US that Vietnam is serving as a backdoor for Chinese goods, said Giang, the analyst at Singapore's ISEAS–Yusof Ishak Institute. Vietnam had been hit with 46% tariffs under Trump's order before the 90-day pause. China and Vietnam have real long-term differences, including territorial disputes in the South China Sea, where Vietnam has faced off with China's coast guard but does not often publicise the confrontations. After Vietnam, Xi is expected to go to Malaysia next and then Cambodia. — Euronews
Al-Ahram Weekly
14-04-2025
- Business
- Al-Ahram Weekly
China's Xi says there are no winners in a tariff war as he visits Southeast Asia - International
China's leader, Xi Jinping, said no one wins in a trade war as he kicked off a diplomatic tour of Southeast Asia on Monday. He reiterated China's commitment to global trade in contrast with U.S. President Donald Trump's latest tariff moves. Although Trump has paused some tariffs, he has kept in place 145% duties on China, the world's second-largest economy. 'There are no winners in a trade war, or a tariff war,' Xi wrote in an editorial jointly published in Vietnamese and Chinese official media. 'Our two countries should resolutely safeguard the multilateral trading system, stable global industrial and supply chains, and open and cooperative international environment.' Xi's visit lets China show Southeast Asia it is a 'responsible superpower in the way that contrasts with the way the U.S. under President Donald Trump presents to the whole world," said Nguyen Khac Giang, a visiting fellow at Singapore's ISEAS–Yusof Ishak Institute. Xi was greeted on the tarmac by Vietnam's President Luong Cuong at the start of his two-day visit, a mark of honor not often given to visitors, said Nguyen Thanh Trung, a professor of Vietnamese studies at Fulbright University Vietnam. Students of a drum art group performed as women waved the red and yellow Chinese and Communist Party flags. While Xi's trip was likely planned earlier, it has become significant because of the tariff fight between China and the U.S. The visit offers a path for Beijing to shore up its alliances and find solutions for the high trade barrier that the U.S. has imposed on Chinese exports. In Vietnam, Xi will meet with Vietnam's Communist Party General Secretary To Lam, his counterpart, as well as Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh. 'The trip to Vietnam, Malaysia, and Cambodia is all about how China can really insulate itself against the from Trump,' said Nguyen Khac Giang, pointing out that since Xi became the president in 2013, he has only visited Vietnam twice. The timing of the visit sends a 'strong political message that Southeast Asia is important to China,' said Huong Le-Thu of the International Crisis Group think tank. She said that given the severity of Trump's tariffs and despite the 90-day pause, Southeast Asian nations were anxious that the tariffs, if implemented, could complicate their development. Vietnam is experienced at balancing its relations with the U.S and China. It is run under a communist, one-party system like China but has had a strong relationship with the U.S. In 2023, it was the only country that received both U.S. President Joe Biden and China's Xi Jinping. That year it also upgraded the U.S. to its highest diplomatic level, the same as China and Russia. Vietnam was one of the biggest beneficiaries of countries trying to decouple their supply chains from China, as businesses moved here. China is its biggest trading partner, and China-Vietnam trade surged 14.6% year-on-year in 2024, according to Chinese state media. But the intensification of the trade war has put Vietnam in a 'very precarious situation' given the impression in the U.S. that Vietnam is serving as a backdoor for Chinese goods, said Giang, the analyst at Singapore's ISEAS–Yusof Ishak Institute. Vietnam had been hit with 46% tariffs under Trump's order before the 90-day pause. China and Vietnam have real long-term differences, including territorial disputes in the South China Sea, where Vietnam has faced off with China's coast guard but does not often publicize the confrontations. After Vietnam, Xi is expected to go to Malaysia next and then Cambodia. Follow us on: Facebook Instagram Whatsapp Short link:
