{"id":13893,"date":"2025-10-27T13:57:37","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T11:57:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jhb-webdevelopers\/channelafrica\/news\/trump-gets-royal-welcome-in-japan-china-trade-truce-hopes-rise\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T16:26:38","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T14:26:38","slug":"trump-gets-royal-welcome-in-japan-china-trade-truce-hopes-rise","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/trump-gets-royal-welcome-in-japan-china-trade-truce-hopes-rise\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump gets royal welcome in Japan, China trade truce hopes rise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Trump, making his longest journey abroad since taking office in January, announced a flurry of deals on trade and critical minerals with four Southeast Asian nations during the first stop in Malaysia and is set to meet Xi in South Korea on Thursday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Negotiators from the world&#8217;s <\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">top<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> two economies hashed out a framework on Sunday for a deal to pause steeper American tariffs and Chinese rare earths export controls, US officials said.<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> The news sent Asian stocks soaring to record peaks.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">&#8220;I&#8217;ve got a lot of respect for President Xi and I think we&#8217;re going to come away with a deal,&#8221; Trump told reporters on Air Force One before landing in the Japanese capital <\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Tokyo<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Wearing a gold tie and blue suit, Trump gave a few fist pumps before his helicopter whisked him off for a scenic night tour of Tokyo, several of its towers lit up in the red, white and blue of the American flag.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">He later went to the Imperial Palace, where he shook hands and posed for photographs with Japanese Emperor Naruhito.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Thousands of police were guarding Tokyo after a knife-wielding man was arrested on Friday outside the US embassy, and an anti-Trump protest was planned in downtown Shinjuku.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Trump has already <\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">won<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> a $<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">550-billion<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> investment pledge from Tokyo in exchange for <\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">respite<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> from punishing import tariffs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">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 Monday, local media reported.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi is hoping to further impress Trump on Tuesday with promises to purchase <\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">US<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> pickup trucks, soybeans and <\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">gas<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">, and announce an agreement on shipbuilding, sources with knowledge of the plans told <\/span><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Reuters<\/span><\/em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">&#8211;Reuters&#8211;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":12956,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[44],"class_list":["post-13893","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-finance","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"United States (US) President Donald Trump received a royal welcome on Monday 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.","published_date":null,"news_description":"United States (US) President Donald Trump received a royal welcome on Monday 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.","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/13893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/13893\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18803,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/13893\/revisions\/18803"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=13893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}