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Trump gets royal welcome in Japan; hopes up for China trade truce
The Straits Times
|October 28, 2025
US President Donald Trump received a royal welcome on Oct 27 in Japan, the latest leg of a five-day Asia trip which he hopes to cap with an agreement on a trade war truce with Chinese President Xi Jinping.
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Mr Trump, making his longest journey abroad since taking office in January, announced a flurry of deals on trade and critical minerals with four South-east Asian nations during the first stop in Malaysia and is set to meet Mr Xi in South Korea on Oct 30.
Negotiators from the world's top two economies hashed out a framework on Oct 26 for a deal to pause steeper American tariffs and Chinese rare earths export controls, US officials said. The news sent Asian stocks soaring to record peaks.
"I've got a lot of respect for President Xi and I think we're going to come away with a deal," Mr Trump told reporters on Air Force One before landing in the Japanese capital Tokyo.
Mr Trump gave a few fist pumps before his helicopter whisked him off for a scenic night tour of Tokyo.
He later headed in a long motorcade to the Imperial Palace, where he shook hands and posed for photographs with Japanese Emperor Naruhito.
Mr Trump has already won a US$550 billion (S$713 billion) investment pledge from Tokyo in exchange for respite from punishing import tariffs.
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and Japanese counterpart Ryosei Akazawa, architects of the tariff deal agreed in July, discussed power grids as being a potential investment area over a sushi lunch in Tokyo earlier on Oct 27, local media reported.
This story is from the October 28, 2025 edition of The Straits Times.
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