Good Trump or bad Trump: which will Asia get?

By Nick O'Malley, Kirsty Needham, Lindsay Murdoch
Updated November 11 2017 - 9:45am, first published 8:44am
US President Donald Trump and Melania Trump board Air Force One to travel to Japan. Photo: AP
US President Donald Trump and Melania Trump board Air Force One to travel to Japan. Photo: AP

As Donald Trump began the longest and arguably most consequential tour of Asia an American president had attempted in a generation - one that could soothe or inflame nuclear tensions and set the course of this century's great power politics - there were good reasons for America's friends in the region to be nervous.

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