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President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. during the APEC Economic Leaders’ Meeting. (PCO File Photo)<\/p>\n
BUSAN, South Korea \u2013 President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. described this year\u2019s Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Summit in Gyeongju, South Korea as \u201cvery productive,\u201d noting that discussions among regional leaders yielded valuable insights on trade, artificial intelligence (AI), and climate action at a time of heightened global uncertainty.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have just finished APEC here in Gyeongju. It was actually a very productive meeting because the subjects that were taken up are some of the most important and difficult subjects that the Asia-Pacific countries are facing,\u201d Marcos told members of the Philippine media.<\/p>\n
The President said the discussions centered primarily on trade and economic cooperation, but leaders also engaged in discussions on issues that increasingly shape global economic policy like AI governance, climate change mitigation, and loss-and-damage mechanisms.<\/p>\n
\u201cTrade led the subject matters. But of course, many other things came in — cooperation between countries for AI, climate change, and how to finally figure out the loss and damage,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Marcos noted that despite the diversity of participants, from Mexico and Chile in Latin America to major Asian economies and Southeast Asian neighbors, leaders shared a common concern: Navigating economic uncertainty.<\/p>\n
\u201cAlmost all of us opened with, \u2018We are facing very precarious times.\u2019 The analysis is pretty universal,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Marcos added that he took advantage of the summit to hold informal exchanges with other leaders and ministers, exchanging perspectives on a wide range of global and regional issues that affect economic growth and cooperation.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s always very interesting to see other points of view. We\u2019re all going home with a lot of ideas to think about and some work to do to develop those ideas,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
The 2025 APEC Summit concluded with the turnover of chairship to 2026 host China.<\/p>\n
Despite a tight schedule following his participation in the ASEAN Summit in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia early this week, Marcos said the back-to-back regional engagements were worthwhile as they offered crucial platforms for dialogue and collaboration amid what he called \u201ca precarious and fast-changing global economy.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI’m going home, all of us are going back to Manila with a lot of ideas to think about and some work to do to develop those ideas,\u201d he said. (PNA)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. during the APEC Economic Leaders’ Meeting. (PCO File Photo) BUSAN, South Korea \u2013…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":116293,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[72,113,61,60],"class_list":["post-116292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116292\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/116293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}