Wars in Israel and Ukraine complicate APEC summit as Biden prepares to meet with China's Xi Jinping
Fox News
President Biden is traveling to San Francisco for the 30th annual APEC summit, and the wars in the Middle East and Ukraine will figure prominently in the global agenda.
APEC is a coalition of nations with conflicting interests and values. It groups member economies and not nations and covers nearly 40% of the global population, about 62% of GDP and almost half of global trade, according to the State Department. Participants include Taiwan, an island territory that Beijing considers part of China but the U.S. backs with military support.
This will be the first meeting between Biden and Xi since they met on the sidelines of the G-20 meeting in Bali in November 2022. Biden’s meeting with Xi comes after several high-level U.S. officials met with their Chinese counterparts to ease tensions after the spy balloon incident earlier this year.