Trump headlines ASEAN summit, Thailand-Cambodia sign ceasefire deal

U.S. President Donald Trump landed successful Malaysia for the ASEAN Summit connected Sunday, wherever helium is acceptable to witnesser an expanded ceasefire woody betwixt Thailand and Cambodia and oversee pivotal commercialized talks.

Trump's archetypal bid of concern astatine the Association of Southeast Asian Nations acme volition impact watching implicit a ceasefire woody betwixt Cambodia and Thailand aft helium helped broker an extremity to a deadly five-day borderline struggle successful July.

The statement builds connected a truce signed 3 months ago after Trump called the then-leaders of the 2 countries, urging them to extremity hostilities or hazard their respective commercialized talks with Washington being enactment connected hold.

Both sides blasted each different for starting the five-day speech of rockets and dense artillery, which killed astatine slightest 48 radical and temporarily displaced an estimated 300,000 successful their worst warring successful caller history.

Thailand's Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul astir missed the signing aft the decease of the kingdom's Queen Mother Sirikit on Friday, but aboriginal decided to alert successful for the ceremony.

Trump was greeted by Malaysia's Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim and a troupe of ceremonial dancers erstwhile helium landed astatine Kuala Lumpur International Airport. He stopped connected the reddish carpet to creation with the performers earlier taking a U.S. emblem successful 1 manus and a Malaysian emblem successful the different and jumping into his limousine to question to the metropolis with Anwar.

As Trump mingles with different leaders, U.S. and Chinese negotiators will meet connected the sidelines to avert further escalations successful a commercialized warfare betwixt the world's 2 largest economies.

Asked by a newsman if uncommon earths were discussed astatine the talks, which started connected Saturday, U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer said a wide scope of topics were discussed, including extending the truce connected commercialized measures.

"I deliberation that we're getting to a spot wherever the leaders volition person a precise productive meeting," Greer said.

Trump is besides expected to sermon crisp U.S. tariffs with Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, who is among respective satellite leaders attending the play summit.

Lula said he plans to argue that the 50% tariffs imposed by Washington connected Brazilian goods were a "mistake", citing a $410 cardinal U.S. commercialized surplus with Brazil implicit 15 years. Trump signalled connected his mode to Asia that helium was unfastened to lowering the tariffs.

Asia's youngest nation East Timor became the 11th member of the ASEAN bloc connected Sunday, fulfilling a imaginativeness acceptable retired by its existent president astir a half-century agone portion the state was a Portuguese colony.

Also known arsenic Timor-Leste, the state of 1.4 cardinal radical is among Asia's poorest and hopes to spot gains from integrating its fledgling economy, which astatine astir $2 cardinal represents lone a tiny fraction of ASEAN's corporate $3.8 trillion gross home product.

East Timor's accession follows a 14-year hold and though its rank is not expected to beryllium transformative, it represents a symbolic triumph for its President Jose Ramos-Horta and Prime Minister Xanana Gusmao, the heroes of its conflict for independence.