APEC summit ends without consensus

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APEC leaders failed to reach agreement at the end of an acrimonious two-day summit in PNG. Source: Getty

The summit at Port Moresby, in Papua-New Guinea, ended in disarray.

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Published 20 November 2018 2:00pm

Updated 20 November 2018 2:19pm

By Francesca Rizzoli

Source: SBS

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The summit at Port Moresby, in Papua-New Guinea, ended in disarray.

The Asia-Pacific countries discussed pricing policies and competition. But for the first time the 21 member states did not reach an agreement on a final communiqué, mainly because of the profound differences between the US and China. Our Beijing correspondent, Gabriele Battaglia, reports.