The Chinese President's charm offensive across Southeast Asia continues.

Live from the BBC World Service, this is the Marketplace Morning Report.

I'm Luke Wilson in for Leanna Bern. Good morning.

China's leader, Xi Jinping, is continuing his week-long tour of Southeast Asia,

arriving in Malaysia tonight, which has been hit by a 24% American tariff. Among those,

welcoming the Chinese delegation, will be Malaysia's trade minister, Zafral Aziz. He's been speaking to

the BBC's Nick Marsh, who joins me now from the Malaysian capital, Kuala Lompur. Hi, Nick.

Hi, Luke. What's the mood where you are?

Well, there's a lot of apprehension.

Uncertainty, actually, is the word that I'm hearing quite a lot, because obviously we're

in uncharted territory.

Things are changing day by day.

Countries here in Southeast Asia were hit by some pretty hefty US tariffs until that 90-day pause was announced.

And, you know, if you're a government official, like Zafri Luce, the Trade Minister of Malaysia,

who I was speaking to yesterday, you're going to be thinking, well, you know, what is the game

plan when things are changing so quickly?

And also, you know, how on earth am I going to

get these tariffs removed when I go to Washington whenever that is? And in fact, you know, the first

thing I asked Mr. Zufferl was whether he ever imagined finding himself in a situation like this.

No. I should answer to that. No. But it is what it No. Short answer to that, no.

But it is what it is.

We have to deal with it.

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