Leaders from the Asia-Pacific region are wrapping up a summit in Bangkok, Thailand, with talks on how to steer the region's economies through the turmoil of war, pandemics and other threats to peace and stability.
The APEC meetings Saturday returned to economic concerns.
A White House official said Harris exchanged brief remarks with Chinese President Xi Jinping before Saturday’s final APEC session.at the Group of 20 leading economies in Bali, Indonesia, earlier in the week: We must maintain open lines of communication to responsibly manage the competition between our countries.Both at APEC in Thailand and at the G-20 meeting in Indonesia, officials appear to have chosen to agree to disagree about the war in Ukraine.
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