From our correspondent
NEW DELHI – The most vital member is, for historic and financial causes, the United States. The host nation is South Korea. But, after yesterday 31 October, nobody can have any doubts about the truth that absolutely the protagonist of the APEC summit underway in Gyeongju was Xi Jinping.
The Chinese president took the chance – unexpectedly supplied by US President Donald Trump’s choice to depart South Korea early to participate within the conventional White House Halloween celebration – to occupy the scene. In doing so, he reworked the summit right into a rallying name round two concepts – free commerce and multilateralism – which as we speak couldn’t be extra international to the American administration’s worldview, providing the leaders of the 21 member international locations of the group a mannequin of cooperation, no less than on paper, various to the steadiness of energy favored by Trump.
«Changes are happening on this planet – stated Xi – which have by no means been seen within the earlier 100 years», including that «the extra troubled the waters turn into, the extra we should stay united». Xi additionally pressured the necessity to follow what he known as “true multilateralism, enhancing the authority and effectiveness of a multilateral trading system with the WTO at its center.”
Then, with a wink on the South of the world for which China aspires to be represented on the desk of the world’s greats, Xi launched an attraction that “international economic and trade rules be updated, so as to defend the rights and legitimate interests of developing countries”.
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