U.S., China Jockeying Over Asia to Be on Display at APEC Summit
- TPP, AIIB big achievements for each country in past year
- South China Sea remains possible source of tensions in Manila
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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.