President Xi Jinping sought to cast China as the predictable champion of free and open trade at the APEC forum while his US counterpart skipped the summit. 

The meeting between US President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping will color the entire Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Summit (APEC), President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. predicted.

Xi Jinping pledges to defend free trade at APEC summit, while Trump skips the event, raising concerns over U.S. multilateralism.

China's Xi Jinping took center stage at an annual gathering of Pacific Rim leaders in South Korea on Friday, and will hold talks with his Japanese, Canadian and Thai counterparts after securing a fragile trade truce with U.S. President Donald Trump. That agreement, struck just before Trump left South Korea,…

Senior Chinese and US economic officials met on Sunday to finalise the framework of a trade deal, which US President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping are expected to review later this...