President Donald Trump’s decision to sit in on Wednesday’s trade talks with Japanese envoy Ryosei Akazawa sends a clear and excellent message: The prez wants this deal done fast, with more trade agreements to follow.

That ends weeks of mixed messages since “Liberation Day” about where Team Trump wants to go, though certainty will have to wait on the actual accords.

Which he should rapidly get, since at least 15 nations have put some kind of offer on the table and 75 have asked for talks. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has flagged Australia, South Korea and the United Kingdom as top targets for early trade deals.

This is what Trump “taking the win” looks like: Rapidly using his leverage (which will never be higher) to settle a new trade landscape, with country after country rushing to get in on the action.

This will further calm the markets, give businesses some certainty (most tariffs won’t permanently soar) and edge out the noise.

Yes, the question of China still looms large, as both Washington and Beijing are still digging in, with Trump sticking to his prohibitively high-tariff guns and Xi Jinping canceling Boeing orders and embargoing rare-earth exports.

We hope they can find an off-ramp: An all-out bilateral trade war now would be trouble for both countries, and an outright recession could throw China into an economic and political tailspin with profound global repercussions.