Xi Delivers Veiled Warning to Nations Not to Take the U.S.’s Side

At the APEC summit in Gyeongju, China’s President Xi Jinping courted countries for trade and investment while warning them not to join U.S.-led efforts to reduce reliance on Chinese supply chains, urging economies to “oppose protectionism” and “resist unilateral bullying.” His message was complicated by Beijing’s recent proposal for sweeping export controls on rare earth minerals — a move that alarmed many nations despite China agreeing to pause the controls after talks with U.S. President Donald Trump. NTU’s Assoc Professor Dylan Loh said that China’s rare earth controls were “an exercise of geopolitical leverage in the context of the U.S.-China economic conflict which will have not gone unnoticed.”

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