APEC leaders fail to agree joint statement: China

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PORT MORESBY, Nov 18, 2018 (BSS/AFP) – Leaders of 21 Asia-Pacific economies
have failed to agree a joint declaration at the end of their two-day summit,
a Chinese official said Sunday, amid a row between Beijing and Washington
over trade.

“The leaders agreed that instead of a traditional leaders’ declaration,
they would leave it to the hands of PNG as the chair to issue a chair
statement on behalf of all the members to capture the consensus,” senior
Chinese diplomat Zhang Xiaolong said at the close of the two-day summit in
Papua New Guinea.