China's Xi Jinping will take centre stage at an annual gathering of Pacific Rim leaders in South Korea on Friday (October 31, 2025), holding talks with Canadian and Japanese counterparts after securing a fragile trade truce with U.S. President Donald Trump.
That agreement, struck just before Mr. Trump left South Korea, skipping the main two-day Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit, will suspend further curbs on China's exports of rare earths that threatened to jam up global supply chains.
Bolstering supply chains is a key focus of this year's APEC talks, which are being hosted in the histo
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