The twenty-one member countries of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum will hold their fourteenth annual meeting in Los Cabos, Mexico, at the end of October. Economic ministers will meet on October 23-24, followed by a meeting of the national leaders on October 26-27. The nations of the Pacific Rim meet at a time of uncertainty in the world economy, primarily because slow growth in the United States is contributing to slow recovery throughout the region. Terrorism is also likely to be discussed. And the revelations that North Korea has secretly continued its nuclear program may dominate the discussion.
Between the two APEC meetings, Chinese President Jiang Zemin will meet President Bush at Mr. Bush’s Crawford ranch. The two presidents will likely review bilateral cooperation on issues such as counterterrorism, the Korean peninsula, and nonproliferation, as well as their divergent approaches to the problem of Iraq. This summit, their third in a year, comes only two weeks before the Chinese Communist Party convenes its 16th Party Congress, at which it will be revealed what leadership positions, if any, Jiang will retain.
Agenda
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October 22
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Moderator
James B. Steinberg Former Brookings Expert, University Professor, Social Science, International Affairs, and Law - Maxwell School, Syracuse University -
Panelists
Michael E. O’Hanlon Director of Research - Foreign Policy, Director - Strobe Talbott Center for Security, Strategy, and Technology, Co-Director - Africa Security Initiative, Senior Fellow - Foreign Policy, Strobe Talbott Center for Security, Strategy, and Technology, Philip H. Knight Chair in Defense and Strategy @MichaelEOHanlonRichard C. Bush Nonresident Senior Fellow - Foreign Policy, Center for Asia Policy Studies, John L. Thornton China Center
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