After two days of meetings in Lima, the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum was closing with a spirit of detente that many fear the annual summit may not see again for the next four years.
Leaders of Pacific Rim countries including the U.S. and China gathered Saturday for a group photo during the Asia -Pacific Economic Cooperation meeting in Lima .Leaders of Pacific Rim countries including the U.S. and China gathered Saturday in Peru for an Asia -Pacific Economic Cooperation meeting, the first major global summit since U.S. President-elect Donald Trump ’s election victory.
The 21 leaders from economies bordering the Pacific, including U.S. President Joe Biden, Chinese President Xi Jinping and Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba, descended on Peru this week at a time when America’s incoming president, Donald Trump, has vowed to withdraw the U.S. from its leadership of a global free trade agenda., as the rest of the leaders took their place on the risers before looking around to find Biden missing.
Much of the conversation about APEC this year centers on the heightened trade and security rivalry between the U.S. and China. Biden and Xi will sit down later Saturday for their
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