APEC leaders meeting to chart path forward from pandemic

U.S. President Joe Biden and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping volition person a uncommon virtual brushwood this week arsenic they stitchery online with different Pacific Rim leaders to illustration a way to betterment retired of the situation brought connected by the pandemic.

New Zealand is hosting this year’s Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum, which culminates successful a leader’s gathering connected Saturday.

Coronavirus restrictions mean this year’s lawsuit is being held wholly online.

The gathering comes against a backdrop of accrued barriers betwixt galore of the countries, arsenic nations person imposed pandemic borderline restrictions and arsenic geopolitical tensions person risen.