Xi and Vietnam Strike Trade Deals as Trump Slams Plot to ‘Screw’ the U.S.

While President Donald Trump ramps up his tariff blitz to protect American jobs and manufacturing, Chinese President Xi Jinping is busy cutting backroom deals with Vietnam signing nearly four dozen agreements that experts warn could be an elaborate scheme to skirt U.S. trade restrictions.

President Trump wasted no time calling out the collusion.

“They’re meeting, like, trying to figure out, ‘How do we screw the United States of America?’” Trump said Monday, responding to Xi’s latest charm offensive in Southeast Asia.

And he’s not wrong. According to reports, the new pacts between China and Vietnam aim to deepen cooperation on supply chains, customs inspections, and infrastructure moves that analysts believe are designed to bypass Trump’s powerful 145% tariffs on Chinese goods by funneling exports through Vietnam.

Here’s what we’re really looking at:

• China slapped with 145% tariffs as Trump cracks down on their decades-long trade abuse.

• Vietnam hit with a 46% blanket tariff, yet still positioned as China’s workaround gateway.

• Xi signs 40+ deals with Vietnam’s To Lam, signaling a coordinated economic play against U.S. interests.

This is economic warfare dressed up as diplomacy and Trump knows it. “I don’t blame China, I don’t blame Vietnam,” he said. “But we’re not going to let them take advantage of us anymore.”

This high-stakes game isn’t just theory. During Trump’s first term, Beijing already tried to avoid tariffs by relocating manufacturing to Vietnam. Firms like Foxconn and Luxshare, which supply Apple, moved major operations across the border. That trend is accelerating again and Trump is prepared.

The Biden-era fantasy that we could cooperate with China as an equal partner is officially dead. Trump’s strategy is simple and effective: raise the cost of cheating until bringing jobs back to America makes more sense than outsourcing them.

Now, Vietnam is caught in the middle. It depends heavily on trade with both China and the U.S., importing more from China than any other nation, while relying on the U.S. as its top export destination. This makes it the perfect pawn in China’s chess game a middleman to rebrand Chinese goods as “Vietnamese” and slip them through American ports unnoticed.

According to business intelligence expert Isaac Stone Fish, the scheme is already underway:

“Some Chinese companies are looking to exploit tariff loopholes... misclassify items, ship through Vietnam, and relabel them as Vietnamese goods.”

The Trump administration is not turning a blind eye. Customs officials are cracking down, and over 75 nations are now negotiating better deals as Trump signals there’s a new sheriff in town.

Meanwhile, the White House didn’t mince words:

“President Trump is a master dealmaker... He will continue to hold China accountable for decades of unfair trading practices.”

This is the new era of American trade policy bold, unapologetic, and laser-focused on restoring U.S. industry. While Xi flies around Southeast Asia signing sweetheart deals, Trump is building an economic fortress that no backdoor diplomacy will undo.

The question now is not whether we’ll win this trade war it’s whether the globalists will finally get out of the way and let us.

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