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This is the theme of the upcoming APEX summit in Gyeongju, the Republic of Korea, later this week.
Chinese President Xi Jinping and US President Donald Trump will both attend and deliver keynote speeches to the 21 member economies that make up half of the world's trade and 60% of the world's GDP.
Ahead of the summit,
President Xi will arrive for his first state visit to South Korea in more than a decade.
Could this lead to a reset in China-ROK relations?
What is expected to come out of the 32nd APEC leaders meeting and with much speculation about what will happen on the sidelines between China and the United States?
Could APEC become a platform
for facilitating strategic diplomacy among the world's largest economies.
Welcome to a special edition of The Point, an opinion show coming to you from Beijing.
I'm Lee Xin.
I'm pleased to be joined from Kunshan in southeast China's Jiangsu province by Professor John Welch,
Executive Vice Chancellor at Duke Kunshan University.
from Busan,
South Korea by Professor Robert Kelly of the Political Science Department at Busan National University from Hong Kong by Brian Wong,
Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Hong Kong and from Beijing by Professor Xu Qinghua,
Vice Dean of the National Academy of Development and Strategy and Executive Dean of Eurasian Studies at Ramy University of China.