{"id":40681,"date":"2018-11-18T18:10:14","date_gmt":"2018-11-18T23:10:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=40681"},"modified":"2018-11-18T18:10:14","modified_gmt":"2018-11-18T23:10:14","slug":"it-will-be-a-cold-war-apec-summit-ends-in-unprecedented-chaos-after-dramatic-us-china-showdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=40681","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;It Will Be A Cold War&#8221;: APEC Summit Ends In Unprecedented Chaos After Dramatic US-China Showdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"block-zerohedge-page-title\" class=\"block block-core block-page-title-block\">\n<h3 class=\"page-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2018-11-18\/apec-summit-ends-unprecedented-chaos-after-dramatic-collapse-us-china-relations\"><span class=\"field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden\">&#8220;It Will Be A Cold War&#8221;: APEC Summit Ends In Unprecedented Chaos After Dramatic US-China Showdown<\/span><\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"block-zerohedge-content\" class=\"block block-system block-system-main-block\">\n<article class=\"node node--type-article node--sticky node--view-mode-full\" role=\"article\" data-gtm-vis-recent-on-screen-2077925_22=\"1085\" data-gtm-vis-first-on-screen-2077925_22=\"1085\" data-gtm-vis-total-visible-time-2077925_22=\"100\" data-gtm-vis-has-fired-2077925_22=\"1\">\n<footer class=\"node__meta\">\n<div class=\"submission-wrapper\"><\/div>\n<\/footer>\n<div class=\"node__content\">\n<div class=\"clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item\">\n<p>One day after vice president Mike Pence and China&#8217;s president Xi Jinping clashed after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2018-11-17\/pence-xi-showdown-crushes-hopes-trade-war-de-escalation\">exchanging sharply worded barbs <\/a>in a showdown between the two superpowers, on Sunday the annual Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit ended in unprecedented chaos and disarray, <strong>without agreement on a joint communique for the first time in its history <\/strong>as the escalating rivalry between the United States and China dominated proceedings and reflected escalating trade tensions.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/inline-images\/papua%20new%20guniea.jpg?itok=igQiPLgh\" data-image-external-href=\"\" data-image-href=\"\/sites\/default\/files\/inline-images\/papua%20new%20guniea.jpg?itok=igQiPLgh\" data-link-option=\"0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/inline-images\/papua%20new%20guniea.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/inline_image_desktop\/public\/inline-images\/papua%20new%20guniea.jpg?itok=igQiPLgh 1x\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" data-entity-type=\"file\" data-entity-uuid=\"2c28280c-390a-4dd1-be26-77beb43d24b6\" data-responsive-image-style=\"inline_images\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Competition between the United States and China over the Pacific was also thrown into focus with the United States and its Western allies launching a coordinated response to China\u2019s Belt and Road program, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-apec-summit-energy\/apec-fails-to-reach-consensus-as-u-s-china-divide-deepens-idUSKCN1NN00M\">Reuters added<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>One diplomat told Reuters tension between the U.S. and China, bubbling all week, erupted when the Chinese government\u2019s top diplomat, Wang Yi, objected during a leaders\u2019 retreat to two paragraphs in a draft document seen by Reuters. One mentioned opposing \u201cunfair trade practices\u201d and reforming the WTO, while another concerned sustainable development.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cThese two countries were pushing each other so much that the chair couldn\u2019t see an option to bridge them<\/strong>,\u201d said the unnamed diplomat. &#8220;<strong>China was angered that the reference to WTO blamed a country for unfair trade practices.<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Sunday\u2019s dramatic conclusion was foreshadowed by <strong>accusations that Chinese officials had attempted to strong-arm officials in Papua New Guinea, which was hosting the event, into issuing a statement that fitted what Beijing wanted<\/strong>. The Chinese vigorously denied the claims. When asked about the impasse, Papua New Guinea\u2019s Prime Minister Peter O\u2019Neill <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/diplomacy\/article\/2173786\/apec-summit-ends-without-agreement-us-and-chinas-deep-divisions\">was quoted by the South China Morning Post<\/a>saying: \u201c<strong>You know the two big giants in the room, so what can I say?\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;It Will Be A Cold War&#8221;: APEC Summit Ends In Unprecedented Chaos After Dramatic US-China Showdown One day after vice president Mike Pence and China&#8217;s president Xi Jinping clashed after exchanging sharply worded barbs in a showdown between the two superpowers, on Sunday the annual Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit ended in unprecedented chaos and disarray, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[21846,130,16089,683,15730,827,5854,896,6392,4318],"class_list":["post-40681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-belt-and-road-initiative","tag-china","tag-mike-pence","tag-reuters","tag-south-china-morning-post","tag-united-states","tag-world-trade-organization","tag-wto","tag-xi-jinping","tag-zerohedge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40681"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40681\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40682,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40681\/revisions\/40682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}