Trump\u2019s tariff hikes<\/a> and \u201cAmerica first\u201d policy.<\/p>\nXi called for maintaining supply chain stability, as opposed to US efforts to decouple its supply chains from China, and expressed hopes to work with other countries to expand cooperation in green industries and clean energy.<\/p>\n
Chinese exports of solar panels, electric vehicles and other green tech have been criticised for creating oversupplies and undercutting the domestic industries of countries it exports to.<\/p>\n
The US president left the country before the summit, after reaching several deals with Xi meant to ease their escalating trade war. Trump described his meeting with Xi on Thursday as a roaring success, saying Beijing had agreed to allow the export of rare earth elements and to start buying US soya beans in exchange for slashing tariffs.<\/p>\n
The US president\u2019s decision to skip APEC, a forum that represents nearly 40 percent of the world\u2019s population and more than half of global goods trade, fits in with his well-known disdain for big, multi-nation forums that have been traditionally used to address huge global problems, with his preference for grand spectacle one-on-one meetings that generate blanket media coverage.<\/p>\n
Al Jazeera\u2019s Jack Barton, reporting from Gyeongju, said Xi was \u201cfilling the vacuum left by Trump\u201d.<\/p>\n
While on his first visit to South Korea in 11 years, Xi met Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi on the sidelines of the summit on Friday. In brief opening remarks, both leaders said they would seek to advance ties.<\/p>\n
According to China\u2019s official news agency Xinhua, Xi said he was ready to maintain communication with Takaichi to jointly advance China-Japan ties on the right track.<\/p>\n
Barton said the meeting with Japan\u2019s Takaichi would be \u201csetting the diplomatic tone for the foreseeable future\u201d. The Japanese prime minister is described by Chinese media as a far-right nationalist who has visited the controversial Yasukuni Shrine.<\/p>\n
The site, dedicated to 2.5 million Japanese who died in wars beginning in the 19th century, is a political lightning rod in East Asia. Among those honoured are World War II leaders convicted as \u201cClass A\u201d war criminals, some of whom committed their atrocities under the Imperial Japan flag in China in the 20th century.<\/p>\n
\u201cSouth Korea and China share some of these historical issues with Japan,\u201d Barton said. \u201cThey came out essentially saying, we\u2019re going to put legacy issues on one side and diplomacy on another, so there is scope for a positive outcome.\u201d<\/p>\n
Xi is scheduled to meet South Korean President Lee Jae Myung to discuss denuclearisation on the Korean Peninsula on Saturday.<\/p>\n
The Chinese leader also met Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney on Friday to discuss trade. In the first formal talks between the nations\u2019 leaders since 2017, Carney accepted Xi\u2019s invitation to visit China.<\/p>\n
The Canadian leader pointed to \u201cconstructive and pragmatic dialogue\u201d as a route to addressing their \u201ccurrent issues\u201d and cited dialogue as a way \u201cto help build a more sustainable, inclusive international system.\u201d<\/p>\n
Leaders and other representatives from 21 Asian and Pacific Rim economies are attending the APEC meeting to discuss how to promote economic cooperation and tackle shared challenges.<\/p>\n
The APEC region faces an array of issues, including strategic competition between the US and China, supply chain vulnerabilities, ageing populations and the effect of AI on jobs.<\/p>\n
South Korean officials said they have been communicating with other countries to prod all 21 members to adopt a joint statement at the end of the summit, so as not to repeat the failure to issue one in 2018 in Papua New Guinea due to US-China discord over trade.<\/p>\n
South Korean Foreign Minister Cho Hyun said last week that issuing a joint statement strongly endorsing free trade would be unlikely because of differing positions among APEC members.<\/p>\n
Al Jazeera\u2019s Barton said the result might be a \u201cwatered-down version\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe question really is, can APEC survive this age of US-China rivalry?\u201d he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"China\u2019s Xi has met leaders from Japan and Canada, positioning Beijing as the defender of free trade amid…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":252381,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[45,49,48,46,44,772,1690],"class_list":["post-252380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-economy","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-us-canada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=252380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252380\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/252381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}