US EditionTrump Kicks Off Asia Tour with ASEAN Summit Ahead of Xi Meeting
- On Friday, US President Donald Trump departed for Asia to press trade talks with Chinese President Xi Jinping, aiming to meet him in South Korea on the trip's last day.
- Tariff pressure has built after China imposed rare-earth curbs, leading Trump to threaten 100% tariffs starting November 1 and seek $900 billion tied to easing tariff rates from 25% to 15%.
- He arrives in Kuala Lumpur on Sunday for the ASEAN summit and will oversee a Thailand-Cambodia peace signing and meet Anwar Ibrahim, Malaysian Prime Minister, before visiting Japan.
- Global markets will watch whether the talks achieve a de-escalation and halt the months-long trade war, while regional leaders press for tariff relief and deals with the US.
- The White House says no Trump-Kim meeting is scheduled, and any encounter would depend on Pyongyang easing nuclear demands, with Kim Jong Un seeking recognition as a nuclear power.
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Donald Trump has begun a whistle-stop tour of Asia that will culminate in his first face-to-face meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping for six years. It is “the most important week of diplomacy” for Trump “since he returned to office”, said The Economist.The US president landed in Kuala Lumpur yesterday, just in time to oversee the signing of a US-brokered ceasefire agreement between Thailand and Cambodia. He then attended the Asean summit o…
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President Donald Trump has started his weeklong trip to Asia, where he will work to secure a major trade deal with China and possibly meet with North Korea’s Kim Jong Un. The three-country Asia tour began over the weekend, with the United States securing trade agreements with Cambodia, Thailand, and Malaysia. Trump’s first stop was in Malaysia, where he attended the annual meeting of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations and a signing cerem…
By far the most important part of Trump's Asian tour is the announced meeting with the Chinese president on Thursday.
Trump starts Asian tour with deals
US President Donald Trump started his Asia tour in Malaysia Sunday with a flurry of signatures, rewarding feuding neighbours Cambodia and Thailand with trade deals after co-signing their ceasefire pact, and saying he was confident of a “great” deal when he meets Chinese Premier Xi Jinping later this week. Trump brimmed with confidence ahead of the meeting with Xi in South Korea, that seeks to seal a deal to end the bruising trade war between the…
The elusive trade agreement between the US and China, one of the decisive fronts of Donald Trump’s presidency, is a little closer to becoming a reality, at a promising start to the US President’s Asian tour, which tore off this Sunday in Kuala Lumpur. Trump’s negotiators and his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, held a new round of meetings in the capital of Malaysia. And they came out squandering optimism a few days after both leaders staged the…
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