{"id":249110,"date":"2025-10-29T17:29:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T17:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/249110\/"},"modified":"2025-10-29T17:29:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T17:29:08","slug":"anthony-albanese-joins-donald-trump-and-other-leaders-for-dinner-on-sidelines-of-apec-summit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/249110\/","title":{"rendered":"Anthony Albanese joins Donald Trump and other leaders for dinner on sidelines of APEC summit"},"content":{"rendered":"

A select group of world leaders have dined with United States President Donald Trump in South Korea, including Prime Minister Anthony Albanese.<\/p>\n

On the sidelines of the APEC summit, just seven were invited to the event at the Hilton Hotel. A large sign in the room declared it was a “special dinner in honour of President Donald J. Trump and state leaders”.<\/p>\n

Mr Albanese was seated next to Mr Trump and received a ringing endorsement.<\/p>\n

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“We had a great meeting a week ago,” the US president said, referencing Mr Albanese’s trip to Washington last week<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“You’ve done a fantastic job and we’re working together on rare earths, but we’re working on a lot of things together, and it’s all working out very well.”<\/p>\n

Last week, the two leaders inked a $3 billion critical minerals deal<\/a> in Washinton DC, which was part of a broader effort to break Beijing’s stranglehold on the sector.<\/p>\n

Mr Albanese’s attendance at the exclusive dinner sheds light on why he cut his trip short to Malaysia, flying to South Korea on Wednesday ahead of the APEC summit.<\/p>\n

Other leaders that attended the dinner included those of Thailand, Singapore, New Zealand, Vietnam, Canada, and South Korea.<\/p>\n

Mr Trump entered the event with New Zealand’s Prime Minister Christopher Luxon, and the men joked about hair.<\/p>\n

\"A<\/p>\n

Anthony Albanese was seated next to Donald Trump, and received a ringing endorsement. (Reuters: Evelyn Hockstein)<\/p>\n

Mr Luxon, who is bald, told Donald Trump the last time he had spoken to the South Korean president “he gave me grief about my hair”.<\/p>\n

“Your hair is beautiful,” Mr Trump said.<\/p>\n

“I thought so,” Mr Luxon replied.<\/p>\n

At the beginning of the dinner, the US president praised South Korea for its warm welcome.<\/p>\n

“You rolled out a red carpet that was a very good red carpet, a beautiful red carpet,” he said.<\/p>\n

According to the South Korean President’s office, the leaders were served Chardonnay and Cabernet Sauvignon, from a winery run by Eric Trump.<\/p>\n

Meeting with Xi<\/p>\n

The US President has this week visited Malaysia, Japan and now South Korea, discussing trade with all three countries and signing new deals with each.<\/p>\n

His highly anticipated meeting with China’s President Xi Jinping will take place on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

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To remind the US president: China is both communist and working passably well, something he and the United States generally are being forced reluctantly to confront.<\/p>\n

World leaders are hopeful that the leaders of the two largest economies can break the trade truce.<\/p>\n

Mr Trump said the meeting would take place in the morning and expected it to go for three or four hours.<\/p>\n

“We’ve been talking a lot over the last month, and I think we’re going to have something that’s going to be very, very satisfactory to China and to us,” he said.<\/p>\n

“I think it’s going to be a very good meeting, I look forward to it.”<\/p>\n

He also told South Korea that he would try and talk to North Korea.<\/p>\n

“You have a neighbour that hasn’t been as nice as they could be, and I think they will be,” he said.<\/p>\n

“I know Kim Jong Un very well, and I think things will work out very well.”<\/p>\n

Ahead of the president travelling to South Korea, North Korea said it fired sea-to-surface cruise missiles into its western waters, in another display of its growing military capabilities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A select group of world leaders have dined with United States President Donald Trump in South Korea, including…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":249111,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2324,132073,133984,512,2490,43,44,5813,41,39,42,40,1055],"class_list":["post-249110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-anthony-albanese","tag-apec","tag-apec-summit","tag-china","tag-donald-trump","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-south-korea","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=249110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249110\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/249111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}