Trump leaves behind tax plan fight for the longest presidential trip to Asia in decades

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November 3, 2017 10:36 AM

In Asia, Trump will address security and trade concerns in Japan, South Korea, China, Vietnam, and the Philippines.

Trump leaves behind a wake of indictments and criminal charges against his campaign officials and advisers, as part of Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Russia's 2016 election meddling, and a fight in Congress over his proposed tax plan.

Between the US, South Korea, and Japan, the North Korean missile threat looms large and Trump is expected to reaffirm the US's commitment to the countries' alliance, though he has in the past questioned if the Asian allies pay their fair shares.

With China, the emerging world power that Trump accused of currency manipulation and "killing us" with a trade deficit, the US appears to actually have made progress. China now cooperates with the US on containing and limiting trade with North Korea like never before.

China apparently dropped its opposition to the deployment of THAAD missile defense batteries to South Korea and normalized relations in a "