With Trump wanting USAID shut down, the UK foreign secretary said Britain had made a 'big strategic mistake' closing its own aid department British Foreign Secretary David Lammy on Friday warned that US President Donald Trump's moves to freeze foreign aid and dismantle the USAID agency could see "China and others step into that gap".

U.S. President Donald Trump meets Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba for the first time on Friday as two allies wary of China's rise work to boost business and security ties while an escalating trade war threatens to rupture the global economy.

"We love Japan!" Trump said as he greeted Ishiba and the two shook hands. Trump later told reporters at they sat together in the Oval Office that the two countries would work together to get U.S. trade deficit with Japan down to "even.