What – if anything – did Asian countries get out of Donald Trump’s whirlwind tour?
by Helen Davidson in Taipei from US news | The Guardian on (#714Y0)
Uncertainty surrounds the signing of this week's trade deals amid the failure to secure reciprocity from the US to cut tariffs
On Donald Trump's whirlwind tour of Asia - which involved stops in Malaysia, Japan and Korea - the US president triumphantly collected new trade deals from countries hoping for a reduction in the tariffs he slapped on them earlier this year.
However - China aside - analysts were left asking just how much Asian nations got out of it.
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