PHOTO COLLECTION: Chinese President Xi Jinping in Southeast Asia

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PHOTO COLLECTION: Chinese President Xi Jinping in Southeast Asia

2025-04-17 16:47 Last Updated At：17:01

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Chinese President Xi Jinping, centre right, and Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim, centre left, react as they look at a performance by children, before dinner at the official residence of the Malaysian prime minister in Putrajaya, outside Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Wednesday April 16, 2025. (Fazry Ismail/Pool Photo via AP)

CORRECTS DATE - In this photo taken and released by Malaysia's Department of Information, Malaysia's King Sultan Ibrahim, right, shakes hands with China's President Xi Jinping after the welcoming ceremony at the National Palace in Kuala Lumpur Wednesday, April 16, 2025. (Azali Ariffin/ Malaysia's Department of Information via AP)

Malaysian King Sultan Ibrahim Sultan Iskandar, right, walk with Chinese President Xi Jinping, during official welcoming ceremony at the national palace in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Wednesday, April 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Vincent Thian, Pool)

Chinese President Xi Jinping, left, and Malaysiass Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim look on before the witnessing Exchange of Agreement session at the official residence of the Malaysian prime minister in Putrajaya, outside Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Wednesday April 16, 2025. (Fazry Ismail/Pool Photo via AP)

Chinese President Xi Jinping, left, and Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim shake hand after witnessing Exchange of Agreement session between the two countries at the official residence of the prime minister in Putrajaya, outside Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Wednesday April 16, 2025. (Fazry Ismail/Pool Photo via AP)

Chinese President Xi Jinping inspects honor guards during the official welcoming ceremony at the national palace in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Wednesday, April 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Vincent Thian, Pool)

In this photo released by Agence Kampuchea Press (AKP), Cambodia's King Norodom Sihamoni, right, and Chinese President Xi Jingping attend a welcome ceremony at Phnom Penh International Airport in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Thursday, April 17, 2025. (AKP via AP)

Chineses people wait to welcome their President Xi Jingping's arrival in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Thursday, April 17, 2025. (AP Photo/Heng Sinith)

Chinese President Xi Jinping, center, leaves to board his plane for departure at Noi Bai International Airport in Hanoi, Vietnam Tuesday, April 15, 2025. (Athit Perawongmetha/Pool Photo via AP)

Chinese President Xi Jinping boards his plane for departure at Noi Bai International Airport in Hanoi, Vietnam Tuesday, April 15, 2025. (Athit Perawongmetha/Pool Photo via AP)

Chinese President Xi Jinping, left, hugs Vietnamese Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh as he leaves to board his plane for departure at Noi Bai International Airport in Hanoi, Vietnam Tuesday, April 15, 2025. (Athit Perawongmetha/Pool Photo via AP)

Chinese President Xi Jinping waves as he boards his plane for departure at Noi Bai International Airport in Hanoi, Vietnam Tuesday, April 15, 2025. (Athit Perawongmetha/Pool Photo via AP)

Chinese President Xi Jinping attends a meeting with Vietnamese President Luong Cuong at the Presidential Palace in Hanoi, Vietnam, Tuesday, April 15, 2025. (AP Photo/Minh Hoang, Pool)

Vietnam's President Luong Cuong, right, and Chinese President Xi Jinping shake hands at the Presidential Palace in Hanoi, Vietnam, Tuesday, April 15, 2025. (AP Photo/Minh Hoang, Pool

Chinese President Xi Jinping looks on as he lays a wreath at the Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum during his visit to Hanoi, Vietnam, Tuesday, April 15, 2025. (Athit Perawongmetha/Pool Photo via AP)

Honor guards stand next to the Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum as Chinese President Xi Jinping participates in a wreath laying ceremony in Hanoi, Vietnam, Tuesday, April 15, 2025. (Athit Perawongmetha/Pool Photo via AP)

Chinese President Xi Jinping, center, walks with Vietnam's Communist Party General Secretary To Lam, right, as he lays a wreath at the Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum during his visit to Hanoi, Vietnam, Tuesday, April 15, 2025. (Athit Perawongmetha/Pool Photo via AP)

Chinese President Xi Jinping, left, participates in a wreath laying ceremony at the Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum in Hanoi, Vietnam, Tuesday, April 15, 2025. (Athit Perawongmetha/Pool Photo via AP)

Chinese President Xi Jinping waves as he arrives for a two-day state visit, at Hanoi's Noi Bai International Airport, Vietnam, Monday, April 14, 2025. (Athit Perawongmetha/Pool Photo via AP)

Chinese President Xi Jinping, left, speaks with Vietnam's President Luong Cuong on his arrival at the Noi Bai International Airport in Hanoi, Vietnam Monday, April 14, 2025. (Athit Perawongmetha/Pool Photo via AP)

People wave Chinese flags as the plane carrying Chinese President Xi Jinping arrives at the Noi Bai International Airport in Hanoi, Vietnam Monday, April 14, 2025. (Athit Perawongmetha/Pool Photo via AP)

Vietnamese General Secretary of the Communist Party To Lam, center right, and Chinese President Xi Jinping, center left, review the guard of honor at the Presidential Palace in Hanoi, Vietnam Monday, April 14, 2025. (Luong Thai Linh/Pool Photo via AP)

Vietnamese General Secretary of the Communist Party To Lam, center right, and Chinese President Xi Jinping, center left, walk during a welcome ceremony at the Presidential Palace in Hanoi, Vietnam Monday, April 14, 2025. (Luong Thai Linh/Pool Photo via AP)

Vietnamese General Secretary of the Communist Party To Lam, center, and Chinese President Xi Jinping, right, review the guard of honor at the Presidential Palace in Hanoi, Vietnam Monday, April 14, 2025. (Luong Thai Linh/Pool Photo via AP)

Vietnamese General Secretary of the Communist Party To Lam, second left, and Chinese President Xi Jinping, right, pose for a photo with children during a welcome ceremony at the Presidential Palace in Hanoi, Vietnam Monday, April 14, 2025. (Luong Thai Linh/Pool Photo via AP)

Vietnamese General Secretary of the Communist Party To Lam, center right, and Chinese President Xi Jinping, center left, walk during a welcome ceremony at the Presidential Palace in Hanoi, Vietnam Monday, April 14, 2025. (Luong Thai Linh/Pool Photo via AP)

Vietnam's Communist Party General Secretary To Lam, second right, and China's President Xi Jinping, right, view copies of agreements signed between China and Vietnam following their meeting at the Office of the Party Central Committee in Hanoi, Vietnam, Monday, April 14, 2025. (Nhac Nguyen/Pool Photo via AP)

Vietnam's Communist Party General Secretary To Lam, right, and China's President Xi Jinping, left, leave after their meeting at the Office of the Party Central Committee in Hanoi, Vietnam, Monday, April 14, 2025. (Nhac Nguyen/Pool Photo via AP)

Vietnamese Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh, right, and Chinese President Xi Jinping shake hands at the Office of the Party Central Committee in Hanoi, Vietnam, Monday, April 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Minh Hoang, Pool)

Vietnamese Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh, center-right, and Chinese President Xi Jinping attend a meeting at the Office of the Party Central Committee in Hanoi, Vietnam, Monday, April 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Minh Hoang, Pool)

Vietnamese Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh, center-left, and Chinese President Xi Jinping, centre right, walk to the meeting room at the Office of the Party Central Committee in Hanoi, Vietnam, Monday, April 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Minh Hoang, Pool)

Chinese President Xi Jinping looks on during a meeting with Vietnam's National Assembly Chairman Tran Thanh Man during a two-day state visit, in Hanoi, Vietnam, Monday April 14, 2025. (Athit Perawongmetha/Pool Photo via AP)

Chinese President Xi Jinping, left, shakes hands with Vietnam's National Assembly Chairman Tran Thanh Man, in Hanoi, Vietnam, Monday April 14, 2025. (Athit Perawongmetha/Pool Photo via AP)

Chinese President Xi Jinping gestures during his two-day state visit, in Hanoi, Vietnam, Monday April 14, 2025. (Athit Perawongmetha/Pool Photo via AP)

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Chinese President Xi Jinping, centre right, and Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim, centre left, react as they look at a performance by children, before dinner at the official residence of the Malaysian prime minister in Putrajaya, outside Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Wednesday April 16, 2025. (Fazry Ismail/Pool Photo via AP)

CORRECTS DATE - In this photo taken and released by Malaysia's Department of Information, Malaysia's King Sultan Ibrahim, right, shakes hands with China's President Xi Jinping after the welcoming ceremony at the National Palace in Kuala Lumpur Wednesday, April 16, 2025. (Azali Ariffin/ Malaysia's Department of Information via AP)

Malaysian King Sultan Ibrahim Sultan Iskandar, right, walk with Chinese President Xi Jinping, during official welcoming ceremony at the national palace in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Wednesday, April 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Vincent Thian, Pool)

Chinese President Xi Jinping, left, and Malaysiass Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim look on before the witnessing Exchange of Agreement session at the official residence of the Malaysian prime minister in Putrajaya, outside Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Wednesday April 16, 2025. (Fazry Ismail/Pool Photo via AP)

Chinese President Xi Jinping, left, and Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim shake hand after witnessing Exchange of Agreement session between the two countries at the official residence of the prime minister in Putrajaya, outside Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Wednesday April 16, 2025. (Fazry Ismail/Pool Photo via AP)

Chinese President Xi Jinping inspects honor guards during the official welcoming ceremony at the national palace in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Wednesday, April 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Vincent Thian, Pool)

In this photo released by Agence Kampuchea Press (AKP), Cambodia's King Norodom Sihamoni, right, and Chinese President Xi Jingping attend a welcome ceremony at Phnom Penh International Airport in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Thursday, April 17, 2025. (AKP via AP)

Chineses people wait to welcome their President Xi Jingping's arrival in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Thursday, April 17, 2025. (AP Photo/Heng Sinith)

Chinese President Xi Jinping, center, leaves to board his plane for departure at Noi Bai International Airport in Hanoi, Vietnam Tuesday, April 15, 2025. (Athit Perawongmetha/Pool Photo via AP)

Chinese President Xi Jinping boards his plane for departure at Noi Bai International Airport in Hanoi, Vietnam Tuesday, April 15, 2025. (Athit Perawongmetha/Pool Photo via AP)

Chinese President Xi Jinping, left, hugs Vietnamese Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh as he leaves to board his plane for departure at Noi Bai International Airport in Hanoi, Vietnam Tuesday, April 15, 2025. (Athit Perawongmetha/Pool Photo via AP)

Chinese President Xi Jinping waves as he boards his plane for departure at Noi Bai International Airport in Hanoi, Vietnam Tuesday, April 15, 2025. (Athit Perawongmetha/Pool Photo via AP)

Chinese President Xi Jinping attends a meeting with Vietnamese President Luong Cuong at the Presidential Palace in Hanoi, Vietnam, Tuesday, April 15, 2025. (AP Photo/Minh Hoang, Pool)

Vietnam's President Luong Cuong, right, and Chinese President Xi Jinping shake hands at the Presidential Palace in Hanoi, Vietnam, Tuesday, April 15, 2025. (AP Photo/Minh Hoang, Pool

Chinese President Xi Jinping looks on as he lays a wreath at the Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum during his visit to Hanoi, Vietnam, Tuesday, April 15, 2025. (Athit Perawongmetha/Pool Photo via AP)

Honor guards stand next to the Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum as Chinese President Xi Jinping participates in a wreath laying ceremony in Hanoi, Vietnam, Tuesday, April 15, 2025. (Athit Perawongmetha/Pool Photo via AP)

Chinese President Xi Jinping, center, walks with Vietnam's Communist Party General Secretary To Lam, right, as he lays a wreath at the Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum during his visit to Hanoi, Vietnam, Tuesday, April 15, 2025. (Athit Perawongmetha/Pool Photo via AP)

Chinese President Xi Jinping, left, participates in a wreath laying ceremony at the Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum in Hanoi, Vietnam, Tuesday, April 15, 2025. (Athit Perawongmetha/Pool Photo via AP)

Chinese President Xi Jinping waves as he arrives for a two-day state visit, at Hanoi's Noi Bai International Airport, Vietnam, Monday, April 14, 2025. (Athit Perawongmetha/Pool Photo via AP)

Chinese President Xi Jinping, left, speaks with Vietnam's President Luong Cuong on his arrival at the Noi Bai International Airport in Hanoi, Vietnam Monday, April 14, 2025. (Athit Perawongmetha/Pool Photo via AP)

People wave Chinese flags as the plane carrying Chinese President Xi Jinping arrives at the Noi Bai International Airport in Hanoi, Vietnam Monday, April 14, 2025. (Athit Perawongmetha/Pool Photo via AP)

Vietnamese General Secretary of the Communist Party To Lam, center right, and Chinese President Xi Jinping, center left, review the guard of honor at the Presidential Palace in Hanoi, Vietnam Monday, April 14, 2025. (Luong Thai Linh/Pool Photo via AP)

Vietnamese General Secretary of the Communist Party To Lam, center right, and Chinese President Xi Jinping, center left, walk during a welcome ceremony at the Presidential Palace in Hanoi, Vietnam Monday, April 14, 2025. (Luong Thai Linh/Pool Photo via AP)

Vietnamese General Secretary of the Communist Party To Lam, center, and Chinese President Xi Jinping, right, review the guard of honor at the Presidential Palace in Hanoi, Vietnam Monday, April 14, 2025. (Luong Thai Linh/Pool Photo via AP)

Vietnamese General Secretary of the Communist Party To Lam, second left, and Chinese President Xi Jinping, right, pose for a photo with children during a welcome ceremony at the Presidential Palace in Hanoi, Vietnam Monday, April 14, 2025. (Luong Thai Linh/Pool Photo via AP)

Vietnamese General Secretary of the Communist Party To Lam, center right, and Chinese President Xi Jinping, center left, walk during a welcome ceremony at the Presidential Palace in Hanoi, Vietnam Monday, April 14, 2025. (Luong Thai Linh/Pool Photo via AP)

Vietnam's Communist Party General Secretary To Lam, second right, and China's President Xi Jinping, right, view copies of agreements signed between China and Vietnam following their meeting at the Office of the Party Central Committee in Hanoi, Vietnam, Monday, April 14, 2025. (Nhac Nguyen/Pool Photo via AP)

Vietnam's Communist Party General Secretary To Lam, right, and China's President Xi Jinping, left, leave after their meeting at the Office of the Party Central Committee in Hanoi, Vietnam, Monday, April 14, 2025. (Nhac Nguyen/Pool Photo via AP)

Vietnamese Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh, right, and Chinese President Xi Jinping shake hands at the Office of the Party Central Committee in Hanoi, Vietnam, Monday, April 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Minh Hoang, Pool)

Vietnamese Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh, center-right, and Chinese President Xi Jinping attend a meeting at the Office of the Party Central Committee in Hanoi, Vietnam, Monday, April 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Minh Hoang, Pool)

Vietnamese Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh, center-left, and Chinese President Xi Jinping, centre right, walk to the meeting room at the Office of the Party Central Committee in Hanoi, Vietnam, Monday, April 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Minh Hoang, Pool)

Chinese President Xi Jinping looks on during a meeting with Vietnam's National Assembly Chairman Tran Thanh Man during a two-day state visit, in Hanoi, Vietnam, Monday April 14, 2025. (Athit Perawongmetha/Pool Photo via AP)

Chinese President Xi Jinping, left, shakes hands with Vietnam's National Assembly Chairman Tran Thanh Man, in Hanoi, Vietnam, Monday April 14, 2025. (Athit Perawongmetha/Pool Photo via AP)

Chinese President Xi Jinping gestures during his two-day state visit, in Hanoi, Vietnam, Monday April 14, 2025. (Athit Perawongmetha/Pool Photo via AP)

The Latest: DHS to open investigation into California program

2025-05-12 22:34 Last Updated At：22:40

The White House has released President Donald Trump's schedule for Monday. He will hold a press conference with Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and then begin a weeklong trip to the Middle East. Trump will visit Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates, though his most pressing regional challenges concern two other countries: Israel and Iran.

Here's the Latest:

The Department of Homeland Security says it is opening an investigation into a California program that pays money to some immigrants.

The Department said Monday that it had issued a subpoena to California’s Cash Assistance Program for Immigrants to obtain records about the program.

That California program was created when Congress in 1996 took away federal Supplemental Security Income assistance for legal immigrants in a welfare reform law.

According to the program’s website, it pays money to elderly, blind and disabled people in California who are not citizens. The website says the program is entirely paid for by California.

The Trump administration has targeted states and communities that it considers to be lax when it comes to immigration enforcement.

Fresh off a 90-day tariff rollback to hold talks with China, President Donald Trump said that on trade issues, the “European Union is in many ways nastier than China.”

Trump said while speaking on Monday at the White House that the EU would “come down a lot” on trade restrictions regarding the U.S., tearing into the longstanding ally. The U.S. president insisted that America has “all the cards” in trade talks with Europe because of the vehicles it buys from the continent’s automakers.

Trump said his executive order on pharmaceutical drug prices would mean that Europeans will have “to pay more for health care, and we’re going to have to pay less.”

The U.S. has a separate negotiating period on trade in which goods from the EU are being charged 10% import taxes.

Trump said that the U.S.-Israeli citizen was expected to be released by Hamas in the “next two hours” or “sometime today.”

“He’s coming home to his parents, which is really great news,” Trump told reporters at the White House shortly before he was scheduled to depart for a whirlwind visit to Saudi Arabia, Qatar and United Arab Emirates.

Trump credited his special envoy Steve Witkoff in helping win the release of Alexander, 21.

The president said that Witkoff, a New York real estate developer turned diplomat, knew “very little about the subject matter” but learned quickly.

“He has a special way about him,” Trump said of Witkoff.

President Donald Trump says he will likely speak with China’s leader Xi Jinping “maybe at the end of the week.”

That’s after negotiators from the U.S. and China meeting in Switzerland this weekend agreed to reduce tariffs for 90 days of talks. The import taxes on China imposed by the U.S. would still remain higher than when Trump took office at 30%.

Trump told reporters on Monday that the reduced tariff rates didn’t include tariffs on autos, steel and aluminum as well as the potentially upcoming import taxes on pharmaceutical drugs.

Trump said he also spoke with Apple CEO Tim Cook on Monday and he expected the tech company to make additional commitments to invest in domestic production.

Trump said the talks would be great for “unification and peace.”

Trump says the countries ended hostilities for a lot of reasons “but trade is a big one.”

Speaking at the White House on Monday, the president said the U.S. is already negotiating a trade deal with India and will soon start negotiating with Pakistan.

India and Pakistan reached an understanding to stop all military actions on land, in the air and at the sea Saturday in a U.S.-brokered ceasefire to stop the escalating hostilities between the two nuclear-armed rivals that threatened regional peace.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent praised the progress made in in trade talks with Chinese officials over the weekend and said he expects another meeting in a few weeks.

U.S. and China announced a 90-day pause on tariffs after the weekend talks in Geneva.

“We had a plan, we had a process and now what we have with the Chinese is a mechanism to avoid an upward tariff pressure like we did last time,” Bessent said on CNBC.

White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller says the Trump administration is looking for ways to expand its legal power to deport migrants who are in the United States illegally.

To achieve that, he says the administration is “actively looking at” suspending habeas corpus, the constitutional right for people to legally challenge their detention by the government.

Such a move would be aimed at migrants as part of the Republican president’s broader crackdown at the U.S.-Mexico border.

“The Constitution is clear, and that of course is the supreme law of the land, that the privilege of the writ of habeas corpus can be suspended in a time of invasion,” Miller told reporters outside the White House on Friday.

“So, I would say that’s an option we’re actively looking at,” Miller said. “Look, a lot of it depends on whether the courts do the right thing or not.”

Trump’s plan to change the pricing model for some medications is already facing fierce criticism from the pharmaceutical industry before he’s even signed the executive order set for Monday that, if implemented, could lower the cost of some drugs.

Trump has promised that his plan — which is likely to tie the price of medications covered by Medicare and administered in a doctor’s office to the lowest price paid by other countries — will significantly lower drug costs.

But the nation’s leading pharmaceutical lobby on Sunday pushed back, calling it a “bad deal” for American patients. Drugmakers have long argued that any threats to their profits could impact the research they do to develop new drugs.

The White House has released President Donald Trump's schedule for Monday. Trump is scheduled to hold a press conference with Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. at the White House at 9:30 a.m. Trump says he’ll sign an executive order that, if implemented, could bring down the costs of some medications — reviving a failed effort from his first term on an issue he’s talked up since even before becoming president.

Shortly after, Trump will begin his weeklong trip to the Middle East. Trump will visit Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates, though his most pressing regional challenges concern two other countries: Israel and Iran.

President Donald Trump is ready to accept a luxury Boeing 747-8 jumbo jet as a gift from the ruling family of Qatar during his trip to the Middle East this coming week, and U.S. officials say it could be converted into a potential presidential aircraft.

The Qatari government said a final decision hadn’t been made. Still, Trump defended the idea — what would amount to a president accepting an astonishingly valuable gift from a foreign government — as a fiscally smart move for the country.

PHOTO COLLECTION: Chinese President Xi Jinping in Southeast Asia

PHOTO COLLECTION: Chinese President Xi Jinping in Southeast Asia

Malaysian King Sultan Ibrahim Sultan Iskandar, right, walk with Chinese President Xi Jinping, during official welcoming ceremony at the national palace in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Wednesday, April 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Vincent Thian, Pool)

Chinese President Xi Jinping inspects honor guards during the official welcoming ceremony at the national palace in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Wednesday, April 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Vincent Thian, Pool)

In this photo released by Agence Kampuchea Press (AKP), Cambodia's King Norodom Sihamoni, right, and Chinese President Xi Jingping attend a welcome ceremony at Phnom Penh International Airport in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Thursday, April 17, 2025. (AKP via AP)

Chineses people wait to welcome their President Xi Jingping's arrival in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Thursday, April 17, 2025. (AP Photo/Heng Sinith)

Chineses people wait to welcome their President Xi Jingping's arrival in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Thursday, April 17, 2025. (AP Photo/Heng Sinith)

Chinese President Xi Jinping, center, leaves to board his plane for departure at Noi Bai International Airport in Hanoi, Vietnam Tuesday, April 15, 2025. (Athit Perawongmetha/Pool Photo via AP)

Chinese President Xi Jinping boards his plane for departure at Noi Bai International Airport in Hanoi, Vietnam Tuesday, April 15, 2025. (Athit Perawongmetha/Pool Photo via AP)

Chinese President Xi Jinping, left, hugs Vietnamese Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh as he leaves to board his plane for departure at Noi Bai International Airport in Hanoi, Vietnam Tuesday, April 15, 2025. (Athit Perawongmetha/Pool Photo via AP)

Chinese President Xi Jinping waves as he boards his plane for departure at Noi Bai International Airport in Hanoi, Vietnam Tuesday, April 15, 2025. (Athit Perawongmetha/Pool Photo via AP)

Chinese President Xi Jinping attends a meeting with Vietnamese President Luong Cuong at the Presidential Palace in Hanoi, Vietnam, Tuesday, April 15, 2025. (AP Photo/Minh Hoang, Pool)

Vietnam's President Luong Cuong, right, and Chinese President Xi Jinping shake hands at the Presidential Palace in Hanoi, Vietnam, Tuesday, April 15, 2025. (AP Photo/Minh Hoang, Pool

Vietnam's President Luong Cuong, right, and Chinese President Xi Jinping shake hands at the Presidential Palace in Hanoi, Vietnam, Tuesday, April 15, 2025. (AP Photo/Minh Hoang, Pool

Chinese President Xi Jinping looks on as he lays a wreath at the Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum during his visit to Hanoi, Vietnam, Tuesday, April 15, 2025. (Athit Perawongmetha/Pool Photo via AP)

Honor guards stand next to the Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum as Chinese President Xi Jinping participates in a wreath laying ceremony in Hanoi, Vietnam, Tuesday, April 15, 2025. (Athit Perawongmetha/Pool Photo via AP)

Chinese President Xi Jinping, center, walks with Vietnam's Communist Party General Secretary To Lam, right, as he lays a wreath at the Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum during his visit to Hanoi, Vietnam, Tuesday, April 15, 2025. (Athit Perawongmetha/Pool Photo via AP)

Chinese President Xi Jinping, left, participates in a wreath laying ceremony at the Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum in Hanoi, Vietnam, Tuesday, April 15, 2025. (Athit Perawongmetha/Pool Photo via AP)

Chinese President Xi Jinping waves as he arrives for a two-day state visit, at Hanoi's Noi Bai International Airport, Vietnam, Monday, April 14, 2025. (Athit Perawongmetha/Pool Photo via AP)

Chinese President Xi Jinping, left, speaks with Vietnam's President Luong Cuong on his arrival at the Noi Bai International Airport in Hanoi, Vietnam Monday, April 14, 2025. (Athit Perawongmetha/Pool Photo via AP)

People wave Chinese flags as the plane carrying Chinese President Xi Jinping arrives at the Noi Bai International Airport in Hanoi, Vietnam Monday, April 14, 2025. (Athit Perawongmetha/Pool Photo via AP)

Vietnamese General Secretary of the Communist Party To Lam, center right, and Chinese President Xi Jinping, center left, review the guard of honor at the Presidential Palace in Hanoi, Vietnam Monday, April 14, 2025. (Luong Thai Linh/Pool Photo via AP)

Vietnamese General Secretary of the Communist Party To Lam, center right, and Chinese President Xi Jinping, center left, walk during a welcome ceremony at the Presidential Palace in Hanoi, Vietnam Monday, April 14, 2025. (Luong Thai Linh/Pool Photo via AP)

Vietnamese General Secretary of the Communist Party To Lam, center, and Chinese President Xi Jinping, right, review the guard of honor at the Presidential Palace in Hanoi, Vietnam Monday, April 14, 2025. (Luong Thai Linh/Pool Photo via AP)

Vietnamese General Secretary of the Communist Party To Lam, second left, and Chinese President Xi Jinping, right, pose for a photo with children during a welcome ceremony at the Presidential Palace in Hanoi, Vietnam Monday, April 14, 2025. (Luong Thai Linh/Pool Photo via AP)

Vietnamese General Secretary of the Communist Party To Lam, center right, and Chinese President Xi Jinping, center left, walk during a welcome ceremony at the Presidential Palace in Hanoi, Vietnam Monday, April 14, 2025. (Luong Thai Linh/Pool Photo via AP)

Vietnam's Communist Party General Secretary To Lam, right, and China's President Xi Jinping, left, leave after their meeting at the Office of the Party Central Committee in Hanoi, Vietnam, Monday, April 14, 2025. (Nhac Nguyen/Pool Photo via AP)

Vietnamese Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh, right, and Chinese President Xi Jinping shake hands at the Office of the Party Central Committee in Hanoi, Vietnam, Monday, April 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Minh Hoang, Pool)

Vietnamese Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh, center-right, and Chinese President Xi Jinping attend a meeting at the Office of the Party Central Committee in Hanoi, Vietnam, Monday, April 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Minh Hoang, Pool)

Vietnamese Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh, center-left, and Chinese President Xi Jinping, centre right, walk to the meeting room at the Office of the Party Central Committee in Hanoi, Vietnam, Monday, April 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Minh Hoang, Pool)

Chinese President Xi Jinping looks on during a meeting with Vietnam's National Assembly Chairman Tran Thanh Man during a two-day state visit, in Hanoi, Vietnam, Monday April 14, 2025. (Athit Perawongmetha/Pool Photo via AP)

Chinese President Xi Jinping, left, shakes hands with Vietnam's National Assembly Chairman Tran Thanh Man, in Hanoi, Vietnam, Monday April 14, 2025. (Athit Perawongmetha/Pool Photo via AP)

Chinese President Xi Jinping gestures during his two-day state visit, in Hanoi, Vietnam, Monday April 14, 2025. (Athit Perawongmetha/Pool Photo via AP)

Malaysian King Sultan Ibrahim Sultan Iskandar, right, walk with Chinese President Xi Jinping, during official welcoming ceremony at the national palace in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Wednesday, April 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Vincent Thian, Pool)

Chinese President Xi Jinping inspects honor guards during the official welcoming ceremony at the national palace in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Wednesday, April 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Vincent Thian, Pool)

In this photo released by Agence Kampuchea Press (AKP), Cambodia's King Norodom Sihamoni, right, and Chinese President Xi Jingping attend a welcome ceremony at Phnom Penh International Airport in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Thursday, April 17, 2025. (AKP via AP)

Chineses people wait to welcome their President Xi Jingping's arrival in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Thursday, April 17, 2025. (AP Photo/Heng Sinith)

Chineses people wait to welcome their President Xi Jingping's arrival in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Thursday, April 17, 2025. (AP Photo/Heng Sinith)

Chinese President Xi Jinping, center, leaves to board his plane for departure at Noi Bai International Airport in Hanoi, Vietnam Tuesday, April 15, 2025. (Athit Perawongmetha/Pool Photo via AP)

Chinese President Xi Jinping boards his plane for departure at Noi Bai International Airport in Hanoi, Vietnam Tuesday, April 15, 2025. (Athit Perawongmetha/Pool Photo via AP)

Chinese President Xi Jinping, left, hugs Vietnamese Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh as he leaves to board his plane for departure at Noi Bai International Airport in Hanoi, Vietnam Tuesday, April 15, 2025. (Athit Perawongmetha/Pool Photo via AP)

Chinese President Xi Jinping waves as he boards his plane for departure at Noi Bai International Airport in Hanoi, Vietnam Tuesday, April 15, 2025. (Athit Perawongmetha/Pool Photo via AP)

Chinese President Xi Jinping attends a meeting with Vietnamese President Luong Cuong at the Presidential Palace in Hanoi, Vietnam, Tuesday, April 15, 2025. (AP Photo/Minh Hoang, Pool)

Vietnam's President Luong Cuong, right, and Chinese President Xi Jinping shake hands at the Presidential Palace in Hanoi, Vietnam, Tuesday, April 15, 2025. (AP Photo/Minh Hoang, Pool

Vietnam's President Luong Cuong, right, and Chinese President Xi Jinping shake hands at the Presidential Palace in Hanoi, Vietnam, Tuesday, April 15, 2025. (AP Photo/Minh Hoang, Pool

Chinese President Xi Jinping looks on as he lays a wreath at the Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum during his visit to Hanoi, Vietnam, Tuesday, April 15, 2025. (Athit Perawongmetha/Pool Photo via AP)

Honor guards stand next to the Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum as Chinese President Xi Jinping participates in a wreath laying ceremony in Hanoi, Vietnam, Tuesday, April 15, 2025. (Athit Perawongmetha/Pool Photo via AP)

Chinese President Xi Jinping, center, walks with Vietnam's Communist Party General Secretary To Lam, right, as he lays a wreath at the Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum during his visit to Hanoi, Vietnam, Tuesday, April 15, 2025. (Athit Perawongmetha/Pool Photo via AP)

Chinese President Xi Jinping, left, participates in a wreath laying ceremony at the Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum in Hanoi, Vietnam, Tuesday, April 15, 2025. (Athit Perawongmetha/Pool Photo via AP)

Chinese President Xi Jinping waves as he arrives for a two-day state visit, at Hanoi's Noi Bai International Airport, Vietnam, Monday, April 14, 2025. (Athit Perawongmetha/Pool Photo via AP)

Chinese President Xi Jinping, left, speaks with Vietnam's President Luong Cuong on his arrival at the Noi Bai International Airport in Hanoi, Vietnam Monday, April 14, 2025. (Athit Perawongmetha/Pool Photo via AP)

People wave Chinese flags as the plane carrying Chinese President Xi Jinping arrives at the Noi Bai International Airport in Hanoi, Vietnam Monday, April 14, 2025. (Athit Perawongmetha/Pool Photo via AP)

Vietnamese General Secretary of the Communist Party To Lam, center right, and Chinese President Xi Jinping, center left, review the guard of honor at the Presidential Palace in Hanoi, Vietnam Monday, April 14, 2025. (Luong Thai Linh/Pool Photo via AP)

Vietnamese General Secretary of the Communist Party To Lam, center right, and Chinese President Xi Jinping, center left, walk during a welcome ceremony at the Presidential Palace in Hanoi, Vietnam Monday, April 14, 2025. (Luong Thai Linh/Pool Photo via AP)

Vietnamese General Secretary of the Communist Party To Lam, center, and Chinese President Xi Jinping, right, review the guard of honor at the Presidential Palace in Hanoi, Vietnam Monday, April 14, 2025. (Luong Thai Linh/Pool Photo via AP)

Vietnamese General Secretary of the Communist Party To Lam, second left, and Chinese President Xi Jinping, right, pose for a photo with children during a welcome ceremony at the Presidential Palace in Hanoi, Vietnam Monday, April 14, 2025. (Luong Thai Linh/Pool Photo via AP)

Vietnamese General Secretary of the Communist Party To Lam, center right, and Chinese President Xi Jinping, center left, walk during a welcome ceremony at the Presidential Palace in Hanoi, Vietnam Monday, April 14, 2025. (Luong Thai Linh/Pool Photo via AP)

Vietnam's Communist Party General Secretary To Lam, right, and China's President Xi Jinping, left, leave after their meeting at the Office of the Party Central Committee in Hanoi, Vietnam, Monday, April 14, 2025. (Nhac Nguyen/Pool Photo via AP)

Vietnamese Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh, right, and Chinese President Xi Jinping shake hands at the Office of the Party Central Committee in Hanoi, Vietnam, Monday, April 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Minh Hoang, Pool)

Vietnamese Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh, center-right, and Chinese President Xi Jinping attend a meeting at the Office of the Party Central Committee in Hanoi, Vietnam, Monday, April 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Minh Hoang, Pool)

Vietnamese Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh, center-left, and Chinese President Xi Jinping, centre right, walk to the meeting room at the Office of the Party Central Committee in Hanoi, Vietnam, Monday, April 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Minh Hoang, Pool)

Chinese President Xi Jinping looks on during a meeting with Vietnam's National Assembly Chairman Tran Thanh Man during a two-day state visit, in Hanoi, Vietnam, Monday April 14, 2025. (Athit Perawongmetha/Pool Photo via AP)

Chinese President Xi Jinping, left, shakes hands with Vietnam's National Assembly Chairman Tran Thanh Man, in Hanoi, Vietnam, Monday April 14, 2025. (Athit Perawongmetha/Pool Photo via AP)

Chinese President Xi Jinping gestures during his two-day state visit, in Hanoi, Vietnam, Monday April 14, 2025. (Athit Perawongmetha/Pool Photo via AP)

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