Chinese President Xi Jinping calls on Asia-Pacific countries for unity against growing ‘protectionism’

Chinese President Xi Jinping today, on the final day of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) meeting in Lima, Peru, called on the region’s economies to “unite and cooperate” in the face of growing “protectionism”. In his speech, according to Chinese state television CCTV, at a closed-door meeting of APEC leaders, Xi referred to “challenges such as geopolitics, unilateralism and rising protectionism”. “We need to come together and work together,” he told the 21 APEC member countries shortly before the summit closed and hours before a planned one-on-one meeting with US President Joe Biden. Xi, in a speech broadcast yesterday by the Xinhua news agency, had already warned “against the rise of unilateralism and protectionism,” warning that the world “has entered a new period of upheaval and transformation.” These statements, like the meeting with Joe Biden, come in a context of uncertainties, pointed out by several participants in […]
Source: News Beast

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