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(NewsNation) — Greetings from South Korea.

Today I’m penning to you from Gyeongju, the past superior of Korea’s Silla Dynasty, arsenic different section of the past books is preparing to beryllium penned. 

A large time is upon us. The 2 heads of authorities representing the 2 astir almighty economies successful the satellite are acceptable to conscionable face-to-face wrong the adjacent fewer hours. The 2 sides anticipation to onslaught a commercialized deal. President Donald Trump is assured they’re connected the doorstep of getting an statement done.

“I deliberation we’re going to person a deal. I deliberation it volition beryllium a bully woody for both. And that’s truly a large result. That’s amended than fighting, and going done each sorts of problems,” Trump said, addressing the assemblage astatine APEC Wednesday. 

It is existent that the commercialized negotiations betwixt the US and China person been immoderate of the astir tense and consequential since the president took bureau earlier this year. Tariffs and retaliatory measures person astatine times brought commerce betwixt the 2 nations to a applicable halt.

Major issues inactive remaining betwixt China, US

And determination are inactive sore subjects. The president has criticized China for their punitive measures connected American soybean crops. September marked the archetypal clip since 2018 China imported zero soybeans from the United States.

Rare world minerals and Chinese export controls connected them? A cardinal issue.

TikTok? Unresolved, but significant.

NVIDIA? The institution deed a $5 trillion marketplace headdress contiguous and continues to turn contempt the information they person efficaciously been pushed retired of the Chinese marketplace owed to tense commercialized relations betwixt the 2 nations. 

“We've taken China retired of our forecast,” NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang explained. “We are presently shipping zero dollars. Our marketplace stock has gone from 95% to zero, which is very, very, precise disappointing. But nonetheless, were presently assuming China is going to beryllium 0% of our business. And if it comes backmost if President Trump was capable to negociate oregon if China would similar america to travel backmost to China, it's going to beryllium a immense bonus for us."

There are a batch of large issues astatine play present and, arsenic you tin imagine, the stakes are high. A commercialized woody would interaction millions of Americans successful sectors specified arsenic tech, manufacturing, and agriculture.

South Korea facing demonstrations this week

But it’s not conscionable the United States watching each of this carefully. This week, present successful South Kore,a we person seen demonstrations crossed the country. Some anti-Trump sentiment stems from choler implicit the tariff policies immoderate present judge are hurting the South Korean economy. But different demonstrations are pro-Trump/anti-China, believing Chinese power implicit the portion is dangerous. We’ve seen rather a fewer American flags waving astatine immoderate of these demonstrations this week.

And then, of course, there’s a wildcard to the North successful Pyongyang. President Trump has floated the thought of gathering with Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un.

"I conscionable had a bully narration with him," Trump said Monday. "I would emotion to spot him, if helium wants to, if helium adjacent gets this message. We haven't mentioned anything, but helium knows I'm going implicit there. If he'd similar to meet, I'd emotion to conscionable him."

Could Trump conscionable with Kim Jong Un?

In 2019, President Trump became the archetypal U.S. President to participate North Korea during a astonishment sojourn to the DMZ. 

The North Korean person has been publically lukewarm to the idea, but is besides making wide helium is not funny successful denuclearization. Just this week, North Korea has carried retired a bid of rocket tests.

Kim said helium inactive holds “good idiosyncratic memories” of Trump from their archetypal meetings and that determination is “no crushed not to” resume talks with the United States if Washington “abandons its delusional obsession with denuclearization.” 

Both sides are preparing to support the lines of connection open, though gathering connected this travel whitethorn beryllium logistically difficult.

Nevertheless, the president has immoderate momentum arsenic helium continues his blitz done Asia, inking commercialized deals successful Southeast Asia, Japan and astir precocious present successful South Korea.

The large portion connected the board, China, is inactive successful play. And the chartless adaptable of the equation, North Korea, is inactive nearby.

More to travel today. 

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