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Earlier this week, China's president Xi Jinping embarked on a tour of a few of his country's closest neighbors.

Xi Jinping has launched a flurry of diplomacy and his purpose is to canvas support from China's trading partners and to betray China as a victim of Donald Trump's tariffs.

That's the F.T.'s Beijing bureau chief, Joe Lay.

He says that on Xi Jinping's travel agenda are visits to Cambodia, Malaysia, and Vietnam.

He wrote in the Vietnamese media that in trade wars and tariffords, there are no winners

and that protectionism will lead nowhere.

And he also said that all countries should safeguard the multilateral trading system.

So he's really portraying China as a champion of globalization.

The reason Xi is checking in with these countries is because he's really portraying China as a champion of globalization. The reason Xi is checking in with these countries is because he's trying to protect an economic

model that China's built over decades.

I would say China is comfortably the world's trading superpower.

It is simply a country upon which most of the world depends for so many

products. And China has this huge trade surplus, which means it exports much more than it imports.

Last year, it hit a record of around $1 trillion. But that status as an exporting powerhouse is now under threat after President Donald Trump

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