Apr 14, 2025

Eunice Yoon on Xi Jinping's willingness to negotiate on trade

I think that the Chinese have shown that they are willing to negotiate, that they do eventually want to have some sort of meeting... The rhetoric from the Chinese perspective out of the White House is not actually that helpful because the way things are being set up is that President Trump is the kingmaker and that all these countries around the world are going over there and groveling and asking for deals.  From the Chinese perspective, this cannot happen because for President Xi Jinping it is so politically dangerous for him to be seen as crawling over to the United States asking for a deal.

~ Eunice Yoon, CNBC's Beijing Bureau Chief, "China’s Xi Jinping Sends Trump a Message as His Trade War Spirals," 3:30 mark, The Daily Beast, April 14, 2025



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