“I have a lot of respect for President Xi, and we are going to come away with the deal,” Trump said.
He began his whirlwind weeklong Asia trip on Sunday with a flurry of trade deals and a peace agreement aimed at strengthening his position before meeting Xi. During his first stop in Malaysia, Trump signed separate trade and mineral agreements with his Malaysian and Cambodian counterparts, as well as frameworks for trade pacts with Thailand and Vietnam.
