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Trump’s tariffs fuel China’s dream of railway link with Southeast Asia
During Chinese President Xi Jinping’s trip to Vietnam, Malaysia and Cambodia, intraregional rail transport was at the top of the agenda.
Dang Phuc Nguyen hopes more Vietnamese bananas, durian and dragonfruit will soon be delivered to China at faster speeds before they spoil and it is indirectly thanks to US President Donald Trump, who has shredded all previous assumptions for global trade and sparked expectations of a surge in intraregional exports. Washington’s protectionist tariffs have injected urgency into China-driven ambitions to connect railways and ports from northern Vietnam to China. Such an upgrade in the transport infrastructure would help speed up the time to get Vietnam’s fresh fruits to Chinese supermarket shelves, Nguyen said.
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