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Ex-President Donald Trump received a royal welcome on the start of the week in the island nation, the most recent phase of a week-long Asian journey which he hopes to conclude with an agreement on a trade war truce with Beijing's head of state Xi Jinping.

Official Meetings

Donald Trump, embarking on his most extensive foreign travel since taking office in January, revealed deals with four nations in Southeast Asia during the initial leg in the Malaysian nation and is projected to encounter Xi in South Korea on Thursday.

The former leader shook hands with representatives on the landing strip and displayed a multiple enthusiastic motions, before his aircraft whisked him off for a scenic night tour of Tokyo. His official vehicles was subsequently observed entering the Imperial Palace grounds, where he met Japanese emperor Naruhito.

Financial Deals

Donald Trump has secured a $550-billion investment pledge from Tokyo in as compensation for relief from heavy trade duties.

The nation's freshly installed premier, Sanae Takaichi, is striving to additionally wow Trump with promises to acquire US pickup trucks, agricultural products and natural gas, and declare an deal on vessel manufacturing.

Japan's leader, who was appointed as Japan's pioneering female leader last week, told Trump that reinforcing their international partnership was her "top priority" in a phone conversation on the weekend.

Other Updates

• Washington and Beijing have agreed a framework for a commercial agreement just days before Donald Trump and Chinese president Xi Jinping are due to meet. Treasury secretary the financial leader said the deal, forged on the sidelines of the ASEAN meeting in the Malaysian nation on Sunday, would remove the threat of the application of complete taxes on Chinese imports commencing 1 November.
• The former president has managed the execution of a truce deal between Thailand and Cambodia on the initial day of an regional trip. The US president arrived in Malaysia on the weekend before the ASEAN summit in the main city, the metropolitan center.
• CAIR has alleged the Trump administration of a "clear insult to freedom of expression" after government immigration agents detained UK reporter, Sami Hamdi, on Sunday.

Trump said he was eagerly awaiting having discussions with the prime minister, a close ally of his passed away associate and golfing partner, ex-premier the late prime minister, remarking: "In my opinion she's going to be excellent."

Official Comments

Furthermore, Trump announced he would rule out campaigning for the vice president role in the next election cycle, an approach some of his adherents have proposed to allow the Republican president to occupy an extra period in the White House.

"I'd be allowed to take that action," Trump said, in an exchange with reporters within the presidential aircraft.

But he added: "That's not an option. In my opinion it's too cute. Yeah, I would eliminate that option because it's overly clever. I believe the citizens would object to that. It's excessively tricky. It would not be - it wouldn't be right."