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The remains of 54 unidentified Palestinian detainees returned to Gaza by Israel were buried in a mass grave in Deir al-Balah. Allegations that the bodies showed signs of mistreatment were strongly denied by the Israeli government.



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Oct. 25, 2025, 9:19 AM EDTBy Katherine DoyleKUALA LUMPUR— President Donald Trump arrives in Malaysia on Sunday for his first visit to Asia since returning to office, a three-nation tour through Malaysia, Japan and South Korea that is expected to culminate in a meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping, as tensions between the world’s two biggest economies tick higher.“The first message is Trump the peacemaker. The second is Trump the moneymaker,” said Victor Cha of the Center for Strategic and International Studies. “And then, of course, with the meeting with China, I think what everybody’s expecting is that there’s probably not going to be a big trade deal, but there will be an effort to de-escalate or put a pause on the situation.”Trade is expected to dominate the week. Aboard Air Force One on Friday, Trump said he would subsidize U.S. farmers if he did not reach a deal with China, and that he planned to discuss the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war with Xi, saying he’d like to see China “help us out.”The president also suggested he was angling for a meeting with North Korean Leader Kim Jong Un, even as the White House has said that no meeting is planned. “You know, they don’t have a lot of telephone service,” Trump said, before urging reporters to “put out the word.” In Kuala Lumpur, Trump is scheduled to meet with Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim before attending a working dinner of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations leaders. Malaysia, this year’s ASEAN chair, has set “Inclusivity and Sustainability” as the summit theme. The White House said Trump will also join a signing ceremony for a peace agreement between Cambodia and Thailand, whose deadly border conflict he has claimed credit for helping to resolve. During his first term, Trump attended the annual ASEAN summit only once.Sandwiched between the summit in Kuala Lumpur and South Korea’s Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation conference, Trump will pay an official visit to Japan, his fourth, for talks with the new Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi and an audience with Japanese Emperor Naruhito.Takaichi, a conservative protege of the late Shinzo Abe, has pledged to raise defense spending to 2% of GDP by March, two years ahead of schedule, a target likely to draw praise from Trump, who has pressed for allies to spend more. She has also raised the idea of revisiting the U.S.-Japan trade deal announced in July. Trump and Abe forged a close personal relationship during his first term, before Abe’s assassination in 2022. Trump will also meet with business executives and visit American troops while in Japan, a country that hosts more U.S. service members than any other in the world.In South Korea on Wednesday, Trump is slated to address business leaders at APEC, hold a bilateral meeting with the president, and attend a leaders’ dinner that evening.Topping the agenda at every stop is trade, with negotiators still ironing out the details of pacts with South Korea and Japan and taking steps towards agreements with China and Malaysia. U.S. and Chinese delegations are meeting in Malaysia over the weekend ahead of Trump’s arrival in Kuala Lumpur.“It’s not the U.S. president coming to Asia to meet the multilateral schedule; it’s the U.S. president coming to Asia and then bending the multilateral schedule around his schedule,” said Cha, noting Trump is skipping the U.S.–ASEAN leaders meeting, the East Asia Summit, and formal APEC sessions. Even so, Cha said regional leaders are eager to engage.“Everybody still wants to cut a deal with the U.S. president,” he said. “They all want tariff relief, and they will try to make a deal to achieve that.”Central to the trip is Trump’s anticipated meeting with Xi in South Korea on Thursday, though Beijing has not yet confirmed the session. Top officials from the U.S. and China are sitting down in Malaysia on Saturday to find a way forward after Trump threatened new tariffs of 100% on Chinese goods and other trade limits starting on November 1 in response to China’s expanded export controls on rare earth minerals and related technologies. Trump has said he plans to raise fentanyl, accusing China of failing to curb the flow of precursor chemicals, and a senior administration official said China’s purchases of Russian oil will also be on the table. Trump said he also expects to discuss Taiwan. “We have a lot to talk about with President Xi, and he has a lot to talk about with us,” Trump said Friday, adding he expects “a good meeting” even as he has intermittently threatened to call it off over trade frictions, including soybean purchases.Both leaders want the optics and tactical aspect of this meeting to go well, a person familiar with the meeting planning said. Analysts urged caution about what a leader-level encounter can deliver. “During Trump’s first term, high-level exchanges with China did not prevent him from later taking a harder line,” said Sun Chenghao, a fellow at Tsinghua University’s Center for International Security and Strategy. “So the symbolic value of summit diplomacy should not be overstated.”Earlier this week, a senior administration official pushed back on speculation that Trump could reprise his 2019 encounter with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, when he made a surprise visit to the demilitarized zone that separates the two Koreas in an effort to revive nuclear talks that had collapsed. Trump said before leaving Washington on Friday that he “would like” to meet with Kim, but was unsure whether it would happen on this trip. Kim says he will negotiate only if the U.S. recognizes North Korea as a nuclear power, and has only further strengthened his weapons programs since Trump’s first term. “I think they are sort of a nuclear power,” Trump seemed to acknowledge as he began his journey to Asia on Friday, perhaps paving the way for a possible meeting. “They’ve got a lot of nuclear weapons. I’ll say that.”Katherine DoyleKatherine Doyle is a White House reporter for NBC News. Carol E. Lee, Jennifer Jett, Peter Guo, Arata Yamamoto and Stella Kim contributed.
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Savewith a NBCUniversal ProfileCreate your free profile or log in to save this articleNov. 19, 2025, 6:00 AM ESTBy Peter Guo and Jay GanglaniHONG KONG — Japan has been feeling the sting of China’s economic retaliation as their diplomatic spat over Taiwan worsens, with travel agencies canceling group tours and fears mounting over an outright ban on Japanese seafood and movies.China hinted that it might halt seafood imports from Japan on Wednesday after warning its citizens to avoid traveling there and postponing the release in China of at least two Japanese movies.The two largest economies in Asia have been locked in a war of words that began when Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi told lawmakers on Nov. 7 that a Chinese attack on Taiwan could force a military response from Tokyo. It was the first time such a comment had been made by a sitting prime minister of Japan, a U.S. ally that has a mutual defense pact with Washington.The first day of the auction at the Hamasaka fishing port in Toyooka, Japan, on Nov. 6.Buddhika Weerasinghe / Getty ImagesChina, which claims self-ruling Taiwan as a breakaway province to be seized by force if necessary, has repeatedly demanded that Takaichi retract her “egregious” remarks, saying it will take “severe” countermeasures if she refuses.Though unspecified, Beijing’s threats have fueled concerns for Japan’s already fragile economy that is heavily dependent on China, especially as Tokyo grapples with the effects of U.S. tariffs.On Wednesday, the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs suggested that China might reimpose its ban on imports of Japanese seafood because Japan has “so far failed” to provide documents proving the quality and safety of its aquatic products.China resumed importing seafood from all but 10 Japanese prefectures earlier this month after suspending imports two years ago over the release of treated radioactive wastewater from Japan’s wrecked Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.Takaichi’s comments on Taiwan have triggered “strong public outrage in China,” ministry spokesperson Mao Ning said. “Under the current circumstances, even if Japanese aquatic products were exported to China, they would have no market.”China’s newest sign of economic retaliation came days after authorities advised Chinese citizens not to travel to Japan, saying Takaichi’s “blatantly provocative” Taiwan remarks posed a “significant risk” to the safety of Chinese people in the country.Japan, which says it continues to prefer a peaceful solution to the Taiwan issue, has also advised its citizens to take extra safety precautions while in China. “The government will continue to closely monitor the situation, including the impact of the series of measures by China, and take appropriate action,” Minoru Kihara, the Japanese government’s top spokesperson, told reporters Tuesday.Following the government’s instructions, several major Chinese airlines have started offering free refunds or itinerary changes for eligible flight tickets to and from Japan.While the number of canceled flights was not immediately clear, some travel businesses have reported disruption and losses amid the China-Japan tensions.A Chinese tour group visit the Ginza shopping district in Tokyo on Monday.Greg Baker / AFP via Getty ImagesEast Japan International Travel Agency, a Tokyo-based tour operator offering tailored services to Chinese tourists, said about 70% of its group tours had been canceled, marking a “significant surge,” and that new inquiries had also decreased about 90%.“Normally, the period from late December to the Lunar New Year is peak season for corporate incentive travel,” Yu Jixin, the agency’s vice president, told NBC News in an emailed statement. “But this year, almost none of these groups are expected to visit Japan.”Beijing Huatu International Travel Agency said it had suspended bookings for Japan-related tours until further orders from Chinese authorities.“We are all Chinese people of flesh and blood,” it said Monday in a statement on RedNote, China’s Instagram-like platform. “We will never waver when it comes to the fundamentals of right and wrong.”At least two Japanese movies, “Crayon Shin-chan the Movie: Super Hot! The Spicy Kasukabe Dancers” and “Cells at Work!,” will have their releases postponed in mainland China, state-backed media China Film News said Monday.Chinese film importers and distributors said they made the “cautious” adjustment in response to viewers’ “widespread and intense dissatisfaction” with Takaichi’s remarks.Tanjiro Kamado in “Demon Slayer: Infinity Castle.”Sony PicturesThe delays were announced as Japanese anime sensation “Demon Slayer: Infinity Castle” has raked in more than $60 million since its Chinese premiere on Friday, accounting for 50% of the country’s daily box office through Wednesday, according to data from Chinese box office tracker Beacon.The pausing of film premieres by China, though a “fairly normal practice,” sends a “clear signal” to Japan, said Hong Zeng, professor of cultural studies at Hong Kong Baptist University.“This is not an isolated gesture within the film sector,” Zeng said, noting that it would be “surprising” if all these actions taken by Beijing, including its travel warning, “were merely coincidental.”Peter GuoPeter Guo is an associate producer based in Hong Kong.Jay GanglaniJay Ganglani is NBC News’s 2025-26 Asia Desk Fellow. Previously he was an NBC News Asia Desk intern and a Hong Kong-based freelance journalist who has contributed to news publications such as CNN, Fortune and the South China Morning Post.Arata Yamamoto contributed.
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