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Ex-President Donald Trump was given a regal reception on Monday in Japan, the most recent phase of a five-day Asian tour which he hopes to conclude with an agreement on a trade conflict ceasefire with Chinese president Xi Jinping.

Official Meetings

Trump, embarking on his lengthiest overseas trip since assuming the presidency in January, revealed agreements with four Southeast Asian countries during the opening phase in Malaysia and is projected to have talks with Xi in Seoul on Thursday.

The former leader greeted with representatives on the tarmac and displayed a multiple enthusiastic motions, before his aircraft transported him for a nocturnal sightseeing trip of Tokyo. His convoy was afterwards spotted arriving at the emperor's residence, where he met Japanese emperor Naruhito.

Economic Agreements

Donald Trump has secured a $550-billion investment pledge from the Japanese government in as compensation for respite from punishing import tariffs.

The nation's recently appointed premier, Sanae Takaichi, is hoping to continue to please Trump with commitments to acquire US light trucks, agricultural products and fuel, and reveal an arrangement on vessel manufacturing.

Takaichi, who assumed the role of Japan's initial woman prime minister recently, told Trump that strengthening their countries' alliance was her "main objective" in a phone conversation on the weekend.

Additional Developments

• The US and China have reached consensus a framework for a trade deal mere days before Trump and China's leader Xi Jinping are due to meet. Treasury secretary the financial leader said the deal, established on the sidelines of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations summit in the Malaysian nation on Sunday, would eliminate the threat of the enforcement of full duties on goods from China beginning the first of November.
• Trump has overseen the execution of a truce deal between the Thai nation and the Cambodian country on the first day of an Asian journey. The American leader reached the Malaysian nation on Sunday before the ASEAN summit in the main city, the metropolitan center.
• CAIR has accused the former administration of a "clear insult to freedom of expression" after government immigration agents detained British journalist, the journalist, on the weekend.

Donald Trump said he was eagerly awaiting meeting the prime minister, a key partner of his passed away associate and golf companion, previous leader former PM Abe, adding: "I believe she'll become great."

Political Statements

In other, Donald Trump stated he would reject running for the vice president role in the next election cycle, an concept some of his followers have proposed to enable the Republican president to hold office an extra period in office.

"I'd be allowed to pursue that path," Trump said, in an conversation with reporters on the presidential aircraft.

Yet he stated: "That's not an option. In my opinion it's excessively tricky. Indeed, I would rule that out because it's too cute. I believe the people would disapprove of that. It's too cute. It's not - it would not constitute right."