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Donald Trump on Monday (Nov 13) lauded his trade achievements during a five-nation tour of Asia, promising he would reveal “far bigger” steps when he returned to Washington.<\/p>\n
MANILA: United States President Donald Trump on Monday (Nov 13) lauded his trade achievements during a five-nation tour of Asia, promising he would reveal “far bigger” steps when he returned to Washington.<\/p>\n
The US president has frequently bemoaned what he calls “unfair” international trade deals and a perceived lack of respect for America and its leaders.<\/p>\n
But standing alongside the prime ministers of Japan and Australia in Manila on Monday, he said that was all changing.<\/p>\n
“The way they’ve treated us, the respect that Japan and China and South Korea, in particular – because we went there – have treated us has been really a great respect for the people of our country, the people of the United States,” he said.<\/p>\n
“And we very much appreciate it, I will say that. It was red carpet like nobody, I think, has probably ever received.<\/p>\n
“And that really is a sign of respect, perhaps, for me a little bit, but really for our country.”<\/p>\n
Mr Trump was lavished with praise during his time in Tokyo, Seoul and Beijing, in what analysts said was a deliberate strategy of flattery.<\/p>\n
In Japan, he golfed with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and world number four Hideki Matsuyama, and met the revered Emperor Akihito.<\/p>\n
In South Korea, he was treated to clamorous applause during a parliamentary address, on the first state visit by a US leader in a quarter of a century.<\/p>\n
In Beijing, he toured the Forbidden City with Chinese leader Xi Jinping as part of an extravagant “state visit-plus” that also included a performance of Peking Opera.<\/p>\n
But observers say the concrete accomplishments from the tour are few, with the banner US$250 billion (S$340 billion) of trade agreements announced in Beijing not quite what it was cracked up to be.<\/p>\n
An analysis by Bloomberg News said the roughly 15 agreements are mostly non-binding memorandums of understanding. Many will take years to bear fruit, if they ever do.<\/p>\n
Reversing America’s yawning $350-billion trade deficit with China was a key plank of Mr Trump’s election pledge to “Make America Great Again” and bring jobs back to the hollowed out industrial heartland that voted for him.<\/p>\n
In Manila on Monday, where he is attending meetings with the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and several other countries, Trump said there would be good news once he returned to the White House on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
“We’ve made a lot of big progress on trade,” he told reporters. “We have deficits with almost everybody. Those deficits are going to be cut very quickly and very substantially.<\/p>\n
“We’ve made some very big steps with respect to trade, far bigger than anything you know, in addition to about $300 billion in sales to various companies, including China – that was $250 billion and going up very substantially from that.”<\/p>\n
He offered no details, saying only that his announcement would “probably” come on Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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