As President Donald Trump danced on the tarmac in Malaysia, met Japan’s Emperor in Tokyo, and accepted a gold crown in South Korea one key question kept following him – would he do a surprise meeting with North Korea’s Kim Jong Un?

But President Donald Trump ’s back-to-back announcements about nuclear testing and nuclear submarines on Oct. 29 during his trip to South Korea could turn the nuclear weapons world upside down.

President Trump told reporters as he flew into Japan that he expects to have a trade agreement with China finalized by the end of his tour of Asia.

US chip giant Nvidia will supply more than 260,000 of its most advanced artificial intelligence (AI) chips to South Korea's government, as well as Samsung, LG, and Hyundai. The companies will all deploy AI chips in factories to make everything from robots to autonomous vehicles.

The North Korean leader has grown closer to Moscow since he and Trump met in 2019 and did not respond to the U.S. president’s public push for a meeting.

Topping the agenda at every stop is trade, with negotiators still ironing out the details of pacts expected to be signed during Trump’s three-country Asia tour.

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim on Monday urged Asia-Pacific leaders to choose dialogue over coercion and cooperation over confrontation, as he opened the East Asia summit at a time of sharpening rivalry between the United States and China.

Australia's renewable energy boom is leaving clean power unused due to transmission bottlenecks and slow battery deployment, industry officials say, signalling challenges across Asia as energy transition accelerates.