US President Donald Trump said he would make a major announcement from the White House on Wednesday, following his first trip to Asia. 

Trump focused on trade, security, and personal relations during his meetings with leaders in Japan, South Korea, China, Vietnam and the Philippines. 

CGTN talked to Jacques DeLisle, professor of law and director of the Center for East Asian Studies, University of Pennsylvania, to discuss Trump’s Asia policy toward his first trip to Asia this month and the announcement on Wednesday. 

DeLisle said, "I would hesitate to predict the surprises that the big announcements are really gonna deliver big things we’ve heard before that. I think that there are a couple of things to take away from it." 

"One is we don’t really have an Asia strategy fully in place and that’s partly because of a transactional temperament with the President. It’s partly because of people not being fully staffed up in many places," he noted.

"I think there’s a real tension between the economic nationalists, soon you could hear in Trump’s speech about no more multilateral trade agreements, TPP was bad and all that, coexisting with a very traditional in some ways approach to the security issues. Look at Japan, North Korea (the DPRK) and seeking China’s cooperation on the DPRK, those are all very conventional US positions in some regard, " he added.

"There is the outsourcing of the Korea problem to some degree, but much of the language is really very much what you would see from any US national security perspective and how they’re going to reconcile those? How they’re going to fold those onto one strategy and how they’re going to avoid Trump going off the rails a bit with retweeting insults to Kim and taking the temperature back up and maybe getting impatient with China. That’s the containment task," he concluded.