MSCI's broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan nudged up 0.1 percent. Australian stocks added 0.15 percent, and Japan's Nikkei rose to a three-month high, last trading up 0.45 percent. South Korea's (KOSPI) was little changed.
TOKYO: Asian shares came under renewed pressure on Friday after reports U.S. President Donald Trump was preparing to step up a trade war with Beijing and ready to impose more tariffs on Chinese imports.
Many emerging market currencies were also frail after Argentina's peso sank on Thursday despite the central bank's interest rate hike.
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