Trump's Asian tour begins

US PRESIDENT Donald Trump arrived in Malaysia yesterday on the first leg of an Asian tour that will include high-stakes trade talks with Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping.

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PROTESTERS carry placards as they march during a rally, condemning US President Donald Trump's pressure for increased South Korean investment in the US, in Seoul.

(AFP)

A second day of US-China trade talks concluded in the Malaysian capital on Sunday, ahead of Trump's meeting with Xi in South Korea later this week, in a bid to seal a deal to end the bruising trade war between the world’s two biggest economies.

US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told reporters that his meetings with China's Vice Premier He Lifeng had been “constructive, far-reaching, in-depth’, and “set the stage for the leaders’ meeting in a very positive framework”.

For Trump, however, first among his order of business in Kuala Lumpur - on the sidelines of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) summit - was cosigning a ceasefire agreement between Thailand and Cambodia.