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Ex-President Donald Trump received a imperial welcome on Monday in the island nation, the latest leg of a five-day Asian tour which he aims to cap with an deal on a trade war truce with Chinese president Xi Jinping.

Official Meetings

The former president, embarking on his longest journey abroad since taking office in the start of the year, announced arrangements with four Southeast Asian countries during the first stop in the Malaysian nation and is expected to meet Xi in South Korea on later this week.

President Trump shook hands with officials on the landing strip and offered a multiple enthusiastic motions, before his aircraft carried him away for a picturesque evening excursion of Tokyo. His convoy was subsequently observed accessing the royal compound, where he encountered Japanese sovereign Naruhito.

Economic Agreements

The former president has secured a $550-billion investment pledge from Tokyo in as compensation for respite from heavy trade duties.

The country's newly elected prime minister, Sanae Takaichi, is striving to continue to please Trump with promises to buy US light trucks, legumes and fuel, and reveal an arrangement on maritime construction.

The prime minister, who assumed the role of Japan's pioneering female leader last week, told Trump that bolstering their countries' alliance was her "main objective" in a phone conversation on Saturday.

Other Updates

• Washington and Beijing have agreed a framework for a trade deal only a short time before the former president and Beijing's head Xi Jinping are set to have discussions. The finance chief the treasury head said the arrangement, established on the periphery of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations meeting in Malaysia on the weekend, would remove the danger of the imposition of complete taxes on Chinese imports beginning the first of November.
• The former president has supervised the execution of a truce deal between Thailand and Cambodia on the opening day of an regional trip. The US president landed in Malaysia on the weekend before the ASEAN summit in the capital, the metropolitan center.
• CAIR has alleged the Trump administration of a "obvious offense to liberty of speech" after federal immigration authorities arrested British journalist, Sami Hamdi, on Sunday.

The former president said he was looking forward to meeting the prime minister, a close ally of his passed away associate and sporting friend, former prime minister the late prime minister, remarking: "In my opinion she will prove great."

Political Statements

Furthermore, Trump stated he would reject running for the second-in-command position in the next election cycle, an approach some of his followers have floated to allow the conservative head to hold office an extra period in office.

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

But he added: "That's not an option. In my opinion it's overly clever. Indeed, I would rule that out because it's excessively tricky. I believe the people wouldn't like that. It's overly clever. It would not be - it wouldn't be proper."