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President Donald trumpfirst visit of Asia Since the return to power will include a high-level meeting with the Chinese President Xi Jinping and a series of new trade agreements – as well as a peace agreement between Thailand And cambodiaThe white House Said on Friday.
The deputy press secretary told reporters that Trump’s trip to Asia — he was scheduled to depart shortly before 11 p.m. ET on Friday — would allow him to “work for the American people in one of the most economically vibrant regions of the world” by signing a series of economic agreements with Asian leaders.
Kelly said the agreements “will further reshape the global economic order and secure more investments that will create high-wage jobs and advance America’s reindustrialization” and will include “forward-looking and tough trade deals that benefit American workers, exporters, farmers, small businesses, and digital innovators” as well as “critical minerals agreements that will create reliable industrial supply chains to support a resilient and prosperous world economy.” “Will unlock the region’s resources faster.”
Trump’s first stop malaysiaWhere Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim is hosting the annual summit of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations Leaders.
According to Kelly, he would use the opportunity to “chair” the signing of a peace agreement between Thailand and Cambodia, which he said would “save more lives, reduce more conflict and increase security in a free and open Indo-Pacific.”
Additionally, Trump will attend a bilateral meeting with Prime Minister Ibrahim and a US-ASEAN working dinner with leaders that night.
He will then fly to Japan, where he will meet the country’s newly appointed Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi and Emperor Naruhito. He will be joined by “dozens” of corporate leaders on the trip, and will meet with forward-deployed US troops before flying to South Korea for the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation summit.
There, Trump is scheduled to speak to a group of business leaders “on arrival” before a bilateral event hosted by South Korean President Lee Jae Myung, who will then host Trump as the guest of honor for a “special and intimate heads of state dinner” with “key regional leaders.”
The next day in Busan, South Korea, Trump will meet Xi for the first time since being sworn in for his second term in January before returning to Washington.
The meeting between Trump and Xi comes after months of tension amid an escalating trade war, which the president started soon after taking office.
Trump first announced his intention to meet with the Chinese leader last month in what he called a “very meaningful” phone call, focusing primarily on his administration’s agreement to hand TikTok’s US operations over to an American ownership group.
Since then, Trump has escalated his war of words with Beijing by accusing China of leveraging its soybean purchasing power to negotiate and declaring soybeans “a major topic of discussion” when he meets Xi.
He has also hit out at the Xi government for its recent announcements of restrictions on exports of rare earth materials and threatened to raise the tax rate paid by Americans for Chinese imports to 157 percent, although He later admitted that such high tariffs were “not sustainable.”
A senior administration official briefed on travel plans said Trump intended to sit down with Xi to discuss “trade, the economic relationship between the United States and China” rather than other matters such as U.S. policy toward Taiwan, especially given recent actions by Beijing, which the official described as a threat to “global economic stability.”
When pressed specifically on whether Trump would negotiate with Xi on Taiwan, the official responded: “There is no intention on the US side to discuss other issues,” though he later stressed that he was sure Trump would be “willing to respond.”
Despite Trump’s often aggressive rhetoric toward Beijing when it comes to trade policy, the president claimed on Monday that he has “great respect” from Beijing and that he would reach a “great deal” with Xi when the two leaders meet.
Trump met Xi on several occasions during his first four years in office and has often expressed admiration for the Chinese leader.
Another regional leader for whom he has had kind words in the past is North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un, whom he met for two summits during his first term in office – as well as an impromptu meeting at the Korean Demilitarized Zone in June 2019 that saw the US president actually cross into South Korea for a few moments.
But even though Trump has expressed a desire to reinvigorate his relationship with Kim since returning to office, a senior White House official said meeting with the North Korean dictator “is not on the agenda for this trip.”
With additional reporting by wire agencies