The diplomatic marathon spans multiple host nations, shifting from an Asean gathering and a Quad meeting in the Philippines to the Apec summit in Shenzhen and a Francophone forum in Cambodia. Officials will confront critical friction points including artificial intelligence supply chains, tariff cuts, and Chinese military outposts in the South China Sea. Regional delegates also plan to tackle environmental and political emergencies, notably the crisis in Myanmar and severe haze from Indonesian forest fires.
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Differing strategic priorities among Trump, Xi, and Putin suggest their high-profile tril…: Differing strategic priorities among Trump, Xi, and Putin suggest their high-profile trilateral discussions may yield more symbolic optics than substantive policy agreements.
Diplomatic discussions across the summits encompass vital economic challenges, including…: Diplomatic discussions across the summits encompass vital economic challenges, including securing artificial intelligence supply chains, reducing trade tariffs, and advancing the green energy transition.
Southeast Asian nations are actively pursuing deeper regional integration to protect thei…: Southeast Asian nations are actively pursuing deeper regional integration to protect their economies against prospective United States tariff measures and foreign policy unpredictability.
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The global political centre of gravity will be firmly in Asia this week as world leaders fly in for back-to-back high-level summits against the backdrop of the tussle for influence between the superpowers China and the US.
Beijing will have the home advantage when it welcomes Donald Trump to its southern technology hub of Shenzhen for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (Apec) leaders’ meeting. It starts two weeks after the US leader lost midterm elections.
The summit also comes after an awkward-at-best revelation that the head of Nvidia, the US chipmaker that for a long time was the world’s most valuable company, was having an affair with a woman US intelligence suspects was a Chinese spy.
Apec represents more than 60% of global GDP and has primarily promoted free trade and multilateralism. This year’s meeting could be defined, however, by the confirmed trilateral meeting between Trump, the Chinese president, Xi Jinping, and Vladimir Putin of Russia.
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