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Former President Donald Trump was given a regal welcome on the start of the week in Japan, the latest leg of a week-long Asian journey which he aims to cap with an arrangement on a trade war truce with Beijing's head of state Xi Jinping.

Official Meetings

Trump, making his most extensive foreign travel since assuming the presidency in the start of the year, revealed agreements with four nations in Southeast Asia during the first stop in Malaysia and is expected to encounter Xi in Seoul on Thursday.

President Trump greeted with dignitaries on the airport runway and offered a few fist pumps, before his aircraft whisked him off for a scenic night tour of the metropolitan city. His official vehicles was afterwards spotted accessing the royal compound, where he met Japanese monarch Naruhito.

Economic Agreements

The former president has already won a $550-billion investment pledge from the Japanese government in return for a break from punishing import tariffs.

The country's newly elected prime minister, Sanae Takaichi, is hoping to continue to please Trump with promises to acquire US light trucks, soybeans and gas, and announce an agreement on maritime construction.

Takaichi, who became Japan's first female premier last week, told Trump that bolstering their bilateral relationship was her "top priority" in a phone conversation on the weekend.

Additional Developments

• The US and China have reached consensus a framework for a economic arrangement just days before Trump and Beijing's head Xi Jinping are scheduled to encounter. Treasury secretary the treasury head said the agreement, created on the margins of the ASEAN summit in the Malaysian nation on the weekend, would remove the risk of the application of 100% tariffs on Chinese imports starting on 1 November.
• The former president has supervised the execution of a ceasefire agreement between the Thai nation and the Cambodian country on the first day of an Asia tour. The US president arrived in Malaysia on the weekend before the regional conference in the capital, Kuala Lumpur.
• CAIR has alleged the previous government of a "obvious offense to freedom of expression" after national border officials detained English correspondent, Sami Hamdi, on Sunday.

Trump said he was anticipating meeting the prime minister, a close ally of his deceased companion and sporting friend, previous leader the late prime minister, stating: "In my opinion she'll become outstanding."

Public Remarks

In other, Donald Trump announced he would rule out running for the vice president role in the 2028 presidential race, an approach some of his adherents have proposed to allow the Republican president to occupy an extra period in the White House.

"It would be permissible to pursue that path," Trump said, in an conversation with reporters on Air Force One.

Yet he stated: "I wouldn't do that. I think it's overly clever. Indeed, I would eliminate that option because it's overly clever. In my opinion the public wouldn't like that. It's too cute. It isn't - it would not constitute appropriate."