This is CBS Eye on the World.

Here's John Batchelor.

With my colleague and friend Gordon Chang at Gordon G. Chang,

observing the world 12 days after Liberation Day.

We go now to a vital part of the world

and the story about the trade conflict

between Beijing and Washington.

Charles Ortele, of Sundays with Charles Ortele,

he lives on the island of Penang.

He's traveling in Indonesia.

It is significant that Xi Jinping, the general secretary of the Chinese

Communist Party for his third tenure unprecedented, is making his first overseas trip in 2025.

The stops begin with Vietnam, then to Cambodia, and then to Malaysia.

The other piece of information from the Financial Times these last hours, the London paper,

is that Howard Lutnik, the Secretary of Commerce, and a major figure in the negotiations

underway with all of the trading partners of the United States during this time of

tariff conflict. A major data point is that Howard Lutnik, we're told by the F.T. has informed

Vietnam, Cambodia, and Malaysia. We know you're trans-shipping Chinese goods to mask the fact that

they're Chinese.

Stop it.

We also know that Chinese investor class have taken over your factories and pretending that they're being manufactured where you are.

And in fact, they're being assembled from input from China.

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