‘Not Very Good News’: Trump’s First Mention at APEC Is a Warning

For three hours on Thursday morning, Donald Trump was the elephant in the room at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation as speakers danced around any direct discussion of how he would shake up the global economic, political and business landscape.

Then Andres Velasco — the dean of the School of Public Policy at the London School of Economics — took the stage at the event, which is bringing some of the biggest names in politics and business together in Lima, Peru. His words warned of a bleak future as the American president-elect prepares to return to the White House.