Chile Cancels Summit Where Trump Had Hoped to Sign China Accord

APEC summit was scheduled to be held in Santiago on Nov. 16-17
Decision follows wave of protests that overwhelmed police

Bloomberg’s Tom Mackenzie reports on Chile cancelling the APEC Summit where Presidents Trump and Xi were to meet.(Source: Bloomberg)

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By Laura Millan and Eduardo Thomson

October 30, 2019 at 2:06 PM UTC

Updated on

October 30, 2019 at 2:45 PM UTC

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Chile’s biggest social unrest in a generation forced the government to cancel next month’s APEC summit in Santiago where President Donald Trump was expected to sign a preliminary trade accord with China.

Trump had said he expected to ink a “phase one” deal with his counterpart, Xi Jinping, at the Nov. 16-17 Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum in Santiago.