There are lots of reasons for the President to go to Asia. While there, he will go to Japan, Singapore, China and South Korea. All of these are important to the US (although his main reason to go to Singapore is to attend a meeting of Asian-Pacific Nations.
Japan is our oldest ally in East Asia. We have lots of military bases there and their economy is important to us. They are also concerned with North Korea and what is going on there.
South Korea is important to the US because we have thousands of soldiers there and because of the bad relationship we have with North Korea (and because of the bad relationship between the two Koreas).
China has huge amounts of trade with us, lends us lots of money, and is a rising power.
So it's really important for the US to maintain good relations with all these countries.
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