Apec

Australia plays an active role in the WTO, APEC, the G20, and other trade forums.

The small resource-rich Pacific nation, which is due to host the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum in November, has long struggled with violence and lawlessness.

Xi enters the APEC leaders’ summit, which officially begins Friday, having already hit his diplomatic stride in the G20 meeting in Bali earlier this week – where his aim was to cast China as an integral part of a global arena alongside Western powers after an absence from the world stage.

When Xi Jinping stepped off his plane in San Francisco for the Apec summit, it was in circumstances very different to the last time he landed on American soil.