COMMENT | Chinese President Xi Jinping’s official state visit to Malaysia (as well as Vietnam and Cambodia) attracted a lot of attention, not just in the Southeast Asian region, but also all around the world and specifically, the United States.

Due to the timing of the visit, everyone construed it as a reaction to the Donald Trump administration’s tariff announcements.

Everyone in the US was commenting about Xi’s visit to Southeast Asia, from the arrogant journalist Bill O’Reilly to Trump himself. Of course, their comments were quite politically charged.

O’Reilly’s statement that the “Malays have no money” has gone viral in Malaysia. Trump said it was China and the region coming together to see how to “screw” the US.

To be perfectly honest, I was also...