Leaders of Pacific countries and territories, including China’s Xi Jinping, are gathering in South Korea for a major summit Friday. But the leader of one global powerhouse is conspicuously absent: Donald Trump.

As he so often does, the president is pushing the wrong answer to the right question on trade policy with Beijing.

President Donald Trump and Chinese president Xi Jinping have begun what is expected to be three to four hours of high-stakes ,in-person talks in hopes of lowering the temperature of a simmering trade war that has threatened to boil over and upend the global economy.

Donald Trump's second-term hardline approach, characterized by tariffs and sanctions, proved effective in his meeting with Xi Jinping, leading to a suspension of China's rare-earth export ban and signaling a tougher stance on global rivals.

World leaders kicked off the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit on Friday, with Chinese President Xi Jinping taking the spotlight to address global trade uncertainties.

With a military purge in Beijing before a major political meeting this week some analysts ask: whom can leader Xi Jinping trust?

The Chinese leader’s Apec stay raises expectations that an unofficial boycott would be lifted, but official bodies urge calm.

For a long time, the relationship between neighbors Beijing and Seoul has been going through many ups and downs. "Out China!, Out the Chinese Communist Party!, Out Xi Jinping!", shouted a group of protesters gathered in a square in the center of Gyeongju,