As United States President Donald Trump begins a five-day trip to Japan, Malaysia and South Korea, his team is set to meet Chinese officials in Kuala Lumpur to lay the groundwork for a possible meeting between Donald Trump and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping and to seek ways to defuse rising trade tensions.

The talks, to be held on the sidelines of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations summit, aim to chart a path forward after President Trump threatened to impose 100 per cent tariffs on Chinese goods and additional trade restrictions from November 1, in response to China’s expanded export controls on rare earth magnets and minerals.

Speaking about the meeting between Xi and Trump, Josh Lipsky, international economics chair at the Atlantic Council in Washington, told Reuters tha

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