{"id":109699,"date":"2025-11-01T12:56:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-01T12:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/109699\/"},"modified":"2025-11-01T12:56:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-01T12:56:09","slug":"marcos-greets-xi-as-china-takes-apec-helm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/109699\/","title":{"rendered":"Marcos greets Xi as China takes APEC helm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/img2461.jpeg\" alt=\"&lt;p class=&quot;p1&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;DIPLOMACY.&lt;\/strong&gt; President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. shakes hands with Chinese President Xi Jinping during the turnover ceremony of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) chairmanship in Gyeongju, South Korea on Saturday (Nov. 1, 2025). China will chair next year\u2019s APEC meeting. &lt;em&gt;(Bongbong Marcos Facebook)&lt;\/em&gt;&lt;\/p&gt;\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">DIPLOMACY. President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. shakes hands with Chinese President Xi Jinping during the turnover ceremony of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) chairmanship in Gyeongju, South Korea on Saturday (Nov. 1, 2025). China will chair next year\u2019s APEC meeting. (Bongbong Marcos Facebook)<\/p>\n<p>BUSAN, South Korea \u2013 President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. congratulated Chinese President Xi Jinping on China\u2019s assumption of the 2026 Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) chairmanship, even as Manila and Beijing remain locked in a tense maritime dispute in the West Philippine Sea (WPS).<\/p>\n<p>The two leaders shook hands during the symbolic turnover of APEC\u2019s chairmanship at the Hwabaek International Convention Center in Gyeongju, where South Korean President Lee Jae-myung formally handed over hosting duties to Xi at the close of the 2025 summit.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI congratulated President Xi Jinping as China assumes the APEC Chairmanship in 2026 and reaffirmed the Philippines\u2019 commitment to partnership and meaningful cooperation in our region,\u201d Marcos said in a social media post.<\/p>\n<p>Marcos\u2019 gesture underscored the Philippines\u2019 balancing act \u2013 maintaining dialogue with Beijing under APEC\u2019s economic framework while strengthening defense and economic ties with the United States and regional allies.<\/p>\n<p>Xi\u2019s upcoming APEC chairmanship is expected to test Beijing\u2019s ability to steer regional cooperation amid growing geopolitical rivalries and a shifting global trade landscape.<\/p>\n<p>The Chinese leader held a closely watched bilateral meeting with US President Donald Trump, who returned to the White House this year, marking their first face-to-face encounter since tensions flared over trade and security issues. (PNA)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DIPLOMACY. President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. shakes hands with Chinese President Xi Jinping during the turnover ceremony of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":109700,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[114,184,85,46],"class_list":["post-109699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-il","tag-israel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109699\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}