Amid the Xi-Trump clamour, can Apec revive the business of cooperation?

South China Morning Post - Nov 14, 2026

The 33rd Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (Apec) summit will be held in Shenzhen from November 18 to 19. The venue is not accidental. Forty years ago, this was a border town of rice fields and duck ponds; it is now where a good part of the world’s electronics are designed and built, and the showcase of China’s “reform and opening up”. The event’s theme, “Building an Asia-Pacific Community to Prosper Together”, puts openness, innovation and cooperation at the centre. US President Donald Trump...

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