Xi to meet Canadian, Japanese leaders after Trump trade truce

China's President Xi Jinping talks with South Korea's President Lee Jae Myung during the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in Gyeongju, South Korea, October 31, 2025. - Yonhap via Reuters

GYEONGJU: China's Xi Jinping will take centre stage at an annual gathering of Pacific Rim leaders in South Korea on Friday (Oct 31), holding talks with Canadian, Japanese and Thai counterparts after securing a fragile trade truce with US President Donald Trump.

That agreement, struck just before Trump left South Korea, skipping the main two-day Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit, will suspend further curbs on China's exports of rare earths that threatened to jam up global supply chains.