Vietnamese Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh and China's Premier Li Qiang have agreed to boost trade and investment ties between the two countries during a meeting on the sidelines of the BRICS summit in Brazil,

At the heart of Trump’s latest trade deal with Vietnam and talks with other trading partners is an effort to counter what he sees as China’s unfair practices to circumvent U.S. tariffs.

China expressed opposition to nearby countries striking tariff reduction deals that cut China out of the supply chain. The People’s Daily, in its commentary, called it a “typical act of unilateral bullying, which seriously disrupts the normal international trade order and must be firmly opposed.”