U.S. President Donald Trump landed in South Korea on Wednesday for the final leg of his Asia trip, optimistic about striking a trade war truce with Chinese President Xi Jinping after summit talks with South Korea's Lee Jae Myung.

US President Donald Trump landed in South Korea on Wednesday(Oct 29) for the final leg of his Asia trip, optimistic about striking a trade war truce with Chinese President Xi Jinping after summit talks with South Korea's Lee Jae Myung.

Donald Trump headed to Japan on Monday, the next leg of an Asia tour that could see the US president and China's Xi Jinping end the bruising trade war between the world's largest economies.Global markets will be watching closely to see if the meeting with Xi on Thursday can halt the trade war sparked by Trump's sweeping tariffs,

A preliminary tariff deal with President Trump called for a large investment in the United States, while China has warned Seoul not to side with Washington.

The US president is attending an economic summit on an Asia tour that includes a meeting with Chinese leader Xi Jinping.

Trump is also due in South Korea for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit and will meet President Lee Jae-myung.

US President Donald Trump landed in South Korea on Wednesday (Oct 29) for the final leg of his Asia trip, optimistic about striking a trade war truce with Chinese President Xi Jinping after summit talks with South Korea's Lee Jae-myung.

Donald Trump is in Japan, where he is meeting with the key US ally's new conservative leader, Sanae Takaichi.