What the APEC Summit Could Mean for S.F.…and the World

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🗓️ 6 November 2023

⏱️ 56 minutes

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President Joe Biden is set to meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping this month in San Francisco. They’ll be here during the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit, the biggest international meeting the city has hosted since 1945. Nearly 30,000 visitors are expected in the city during the conference, which officials say could bring in more than $50 million to the local economy. But some local residents are concerned about heightened security and street closures, while protesters are planning to disrupt the meeting to call attention to issues ranging from climate change to workers rights. We’ll preview APEC, which kicks off on November 11. Guests: London Breed, mayor, City and County of San Francisco Vinod Aggarwal, professor of political science & director of Berkeley APEC Study Center, U.C. Berkeley Rachael Myrow, senior editor of Silicon Valley News Desk, KQED Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:30.2	From KQED in San Francisco, I'm Alexis Madrigal.
0:46.6	Let's start with the question our team has been working over this past week.
0:50.2	Is the APEC summit going to feel like a big deal in San Francisco?
0:55.0	And the answer is yes, very big.
0:57.0	APEC, the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Summit, one of those meetings of world leaders where they talk trade and other things,
1:04.0	begins at the end of the week in the city.
1:06.0	It'll bring nearly 30,000 visitors, a big meeting between Joe Biden and Xi Jinping, and a boatload
1:12.1	of protests and roadblocks to San Francisco.
1:15.4	So today, we're going to talk about the local impacts of the summit on our daily lives here.
1:19.6	Then we'll dig into what economic cooperation really means.
1:22.8	What's this meeting about and what does it mean for the world?
1:25.7	Mayor London Breed coming up next after this news.
1:33.7	Welcome to Forum. I'm Alexis Madrigal. So the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Summit arrives here in
1:41.3	San Francisco later this week. APEC, as it is known, is one of those big multi-country groups that come together to discuss
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