M. Trump avait définit les grandes lignes de sa diplomatie asiatique en juin 2016 :
If he [Kim Jun un, président de Corée du Nord] came here, I’d accept him, but I wouldn’t give him a state dinner like we do for China and all these other people that rip us off when we give them these big state dinners. We give them state dinners like you’ve never seen. We should be eating a hamburger on a conference table, and we should make better deals with China and others and forget the state dinners.