{"id":122305,"date":"2025-05-22T10:39:07","date_gmt":"2025-05-22T10:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/122305\/"},"modified":"2025-05-22T10:39:07","modified_gmt":"2025-05-22T10:39:07","slug":"vietnam-squeezed-between-america-and-china-looks-for-new-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/122305\/","title":{"rendered":"Vietnam, squeezed between America and China, looks for new friends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-component=\"paragraph\" class=\"css-1l5amll e1y9q0ei0\">The first Asian leader to reach Donald Trump by phone after he announced \u201creciprocal\u201d tariffs in the Rose Garden on April 2nd was To Lam, the general secretary of Vietnam\u2019s Communist Party. He offered to eliminate all tariffs on American goods. Mr Trump praised Mr Lam in a subsequent post on social media. Mr Trump\u2019s tone changed a few days later, however, when Mr Lam welcomed Xi Jinping, China\u2019s leader, to Hanoi for his second state visit in three years. Mr Trump declared that the pair were meeting to work out, \u201cHow do we screw the United States of America?\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The first Asian leader to reach Donald Trump by phone after he announced \u201creciprocal\u201d tariffs in the Rose&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":122306,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5311],"tags":[54408,6218,49,978,659],"class_list":{"0":"post-122305","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"tag-briefing","9":"tag-geopolitics","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-us","12":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114551060096583638","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122305\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/122306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}