SAN FRANCISCO ¨C Pacific Rim leaders showed divisions over the wars in Ukraine and Gaza after a two-day summit of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum Friday, although they pledged support for reform of the World Trade Organization.
Days of meetings involving APEC ministers and leaders were dominated by a summit on Wednesday between U.S. President Joe Biden and Chinese leader Xi Jinping aimed at cooling tensions between the world¡¯s two largest economies, which have alarmed the region.
The 21 APEC members, which include Russia and Muslim-majority Indonesia and Malaysia, went into the meetings divided over Russia¡¯s war in Ukraine and the Hamas-Israel war in Gaza, and that is how they left them.
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