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President Donald Trump obtained a royal reception on Monday in Japan, the next stop of a five-day Asia trip which he aims to finish with an deal on a trade war truce with Beijing's head of state Xi Jinping.

Diplomatic Engagements

Trump, making his lengthiest overseas trip since taking office in the start of the year, revealed agreements with four nations in Southeast Asia during the opening phase in Malaysia and is expected to encounter Xi in Seoul on later this week.

Trump greeted with representatives on the tarmac and offered a few fist pumps, before his chopper whisked him off for a scenic night tour of Japan's capital. His official vehicles was later seen entering the Imperial Palace grounds, where he encountered Japanese emperor Naruhito.

Financial Deals

Trump has already won a $550-billion investment pledge from Tokyo in as compensation for relief from strict customs taxes.

Japan's newly elected prime minister, Sanae Takaichi, is striving to continue to please Trump with promises to purchase US light trucks, agricultural products and gas, and declare an arrangement on maritime construction.

Japan's leader, who was appointed as Japan's initial woman prime minister in the past seven days, told Trump that reinforcing their bilateral relationship was her "primary focus" in a telephone call on Saturday.

Further News

• The US and China have agreed a structure for a commercial agreement mere days before the former president and Beijing's head Xi Jinping are scheduled to encounter. The finance chief the treasury head said the deal, created on the periphery of the ASEAN conference in the Malaysian nation on the weekend, would remove the danger of the enforcement of complete taxes on goods from China beginning early November.
• The former president has overseen the signing of a truce deal between Bangkok and Phnom Penh on the initial day of an regional trip. The US president arrived in the Malaysian nation on the weekend before the ASEAN summit in the main city, Malaysia's capital.
• CAIR has accused the Trump administration of a "obvious offense to free speech" after federal immigration authorities arrested UK reporter, Sami Hamdi, on Sunday.

Trump said he was looking forward to meeting the prime minister, a key partner of his late friend and golf companion, ex-premier Shinzo Abe, stating: "I believe she's going to be outstanding."

Public Remarks

In other, the former president announced he would rule out campaigning for the vice-presidency in the next election cycle, an concept some of his adherents have floated to allow the Republican president to occupy an extra period in the White House.

"It would be permissible to do that," Trump said, in an exchange with media members aboard Air Force One.

Yet he stated: "I would not pursue that. In my opinion it's overly clever. Yeah, I would reject that possibility because it's overly clever. In my opinion the people would disapprove of that. It's too cute. It would not be - it wouldn't be proper."