Beijing. World leaders including Barack Obama arrived in Beijing on Monday for an Asia-Pacific summit hosted by China’s Xi Jinping and including Russia’s Vladimir Putin, against a backdrop of growing big-power rivalries.
Obama arrives wounded by the Democrats’ defeat in the mid-term US elections and with US-Russian relations in the deep freeze, while Moscow warms to an increasingly assertive China.
The gathering is the biggest event yet hosted by the Chinese president, who took office last year and who spotlighted his country’s expanding world profile Sunday by declaring a bright future ahead for the vibrant Pacific Rim — with a confident China …read more
Source: The Jakarta Globe
