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US President Donald Trump arrived in the Philippine capital Sunday for regional summits, the last leg of a marathon Asian tour, according to an AFP reporter travelling with him. Trump, who flew in from Vietnam, will be in Manila until Tuesday to attend talks hosted by controversial Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte. © Agence France-Presse
(Eagle News) — Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is seen here amazed by the warm Filipino welcome he received upon his arriving at Clark International Airport in the Philippines. Other world leaders who are now in the country are Myanmar’s State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi, Cambodia’s Prime Minister Hun Sen, Laos Prime Minister Thongloun Sisoulith, Malaysian Prime Minister Najon Razak, New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, Singaporean Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, […]
DANANG, Vietnam (AFP) — United States President Donald Trump said Sunday he backs US intelligence agencies who concluded Russia meddled in the 2016 US presidential election, but repeated his trust in the sincerity of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s personal denials. “As to whether or not I believe it or not, I’m with our agencies. I believe in our… intelligence agencies,” Trump told reporters in Hanoi. US intelligence chiefs have told congress Russia meddled in the […]
(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte attended the picturing taking for the so-called family photo of world leaders attending the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) leaders’ summit in the central Vietnamese city of Danang on November 11, 2017. He stood beside Russian President Vladimir Putin and behind China’s President Xi. On Duterte’s other side is Peru’s President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski. United States President Donald Trump stood next to Putin. Pictured from left to right […]
By Aidan Jones / Jerome Cartillier Agence France Presse DANANG, Vietnam (AFP) — The leaders of the US and China laid out sharply divergent visions for the future of global trade on Friday, with Donald Trump doubling down on his “America First” rhetoric, leaving counterpart Xi Jinping to defend the “irreversible” tide of globalization. Xi, who has emerged as the most powerful Chinese leader in decades, and Trump, whose woes include dismal approval ratings […]
By Martin Abbugao and Jerome Taylor Agence France Presse DANANG, Vietnam (AFP) — Ministers from 11 Asia-Pacific countries agreed Saturday to press ahead with a major trade deal without the United States, as the world’s largest economy seeks to go it alone under President Donald Trump’s “America First” policy. Trump pulled his country from the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) at the start of the year, dismaying allies and casting into doubt an agreement heralded […]
(Eagle News) – United States President Donald Trump criticized “unfair trade” practices of some countries which have hurt the US, saying that under his leadership, America would no longer tolerate unfair trade deals and theft of intellectual property that would put the US economy in jeopardy. In his speech before the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) meeting in Da Nang Vietnam, Trump repeated his policy of putting America first, in the same way that […]
BEIJING, China (AFP) — China on Friday said it will further open the country’s financial markets to foreign firms, a key demand from the United States and Europe which have long complained about the strict limits on access to the giant economy. The announcement came after Donald Trump’s state visit to Beijing during which the US leader called for a more level playing field for American companies and measures to reduce a massive trade […]
DANANG, Vietnam (AFP) — The leaders of the the US and China, the world’s two largest economies, are expected to lay out competing visions for the future of global trade Friday in closely-watched speeches to Asia-Pacific leaders gathered in Vietnam. President Donald Trump is likely to wield his “America First” doctrine when he address CEOs ahead of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum at the Vietnamese resort of Danang. In a day mixing big […]
(Eagle News) — United States President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping both promised greater cooperation and stronger friendship between the two countries when they met for the first time in Beijing, China. Xi and his first lady, warmly welcomed Trump who was with First Lady Melania Trump in Beijing. China’s sincere welcome for US President was marked with regal fluorish, rolling out the red carpet for Trump at the Forbidden City, […]
BEIJING, China (AFP) — China and the United States announced more than $250 billion in business deals during US President Donald Trump’s state visit to Beijing on Thursday. The deals range from billions in Chinese soybean and aircraft imports to major projects like the development and export of liquified natural gas from Alaska. The signing of more than a dozen deals did little to quiet Trump’s complaints about China’s “unfair” trade practices. President Xi Jinping acknowledged there has […]
by Laurent Thomet Agence France-Presse BEIJING, China (AFP) — Donald Trump and Xi Jinping will put their professed friendship to the test Thursday as the least popular US president in decades and the newly empowered Chinese leader hold tough talks on trade and North Korea. Trump will be treated to more pomp and ceremony on the second day of his first state visit to China, the crucial stop in his 12-day, five-nation tour of Asia. The two […]
