Several Asia-Pacific leaders gathered for an economic summit in the Thai capital broke away from their meeting on Friday, November 18, to condemn North Korea after it tested a suspected intercontinental ballistic missile.
BANGKOK, Thailand – Several Asia-Pacific leaders gathered for an economic summit in the Thai capital broke away from their meeting on Friday, November 18, to condemn North Korea after itSeparately, police fired rubber bullets to disperse anti-government protesters in Bangkok as the host of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit, Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha, was opening the conference.
“We can no longer live like we did. We need to adjust our perspective, ways of life and ways of doing business,” he said to an audience that included Harris and China’s President Xi Jinping. The APEC gathering is the third summit in the region in the past week. A Southeast Asian summit that included China, Japan and the United States was held in Cambodia while the Group of 20 nations met on the Indonesian island of Bali.
Videos on social media showed protesters trying to overturn a police car, throwing projectiles and charging at police, while officers in riot gear advanced on them with shields and beat them back with batons. “No attempt to wage a new cold war will ever be allowed by the people or by our times,” Xi said in written remarks prepared for a business event linked to the summit.
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