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November 15 , 2015
  • China is ready to join France and the international community in stepping up security cooperation and combating terrorism, President Xi Jinping told French President Francois Hollande on Saturday, after attacks in Paris that killed about 120 people.In a telephone call to Hollande, Xi also condemned Friday's attacks, offering condolences to the victims and their families, according to comments published on the Chinese foreign ministry website.Gunmen and bombers attacked restaurants, a concert hall and a sports stadium in the French capital in what Hollande has called an unprecedented terrorist attack, reports Reuters.

  • Bloomberg Business writes: It's been a busy year for both the U.S. and China as one sought to preserve influence in Asia and the other to expand it. U.S. President Barack Obama and Chinese President Xi Jinping will be maneuvering for position this week to sell their respective Asian strategies to the 21 nations of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum in Manila. Obama can tout the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a trade deal encompassing a dozen Pacific nations, among the successes of his "rebalance to Asia." Xi is fresh from state visits to the U.K., Singapore, and Vietnam, plus the first meeting with a Taiwanese leader in seven decades. He'll be pushing for a bigger role on the world stage and flagging achievements like the establishment of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank and the expectation it will soon achieve reserve currency status for the yuan.
  • AP writes that thorny American ties with China and the Paris terrorist attacks are expected to grab attention from trade issues at the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation summit that will be held under extra-heavy security in the Philippine capital this week. President Barack Obama and the leaders of China, Japan, Mexico and other nations in the 21-member APEC bloc will converge along with 7,000 officials, CEOs and other participants on a convention center by Manila Bay. Several days of meetings culminate with a 2-day summit of leaders beginning Wednesday. Russia's president, Vladimir Putin, will skip the Manila meetings, partly to focus on an investigation into the Oct. 31 crash of a Russian passenger jet in Egypt that killed all 224 people on board. He will be represented by Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev. Indonesian President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo will likely be kept away by domestic problems too, according to Philippine officials.
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