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Donald Trump is back in Washington, but Asian leaders continue to talk business at the APEC summit

in South Korea. Live from the UK, this is the Marketplace Morning Report from the BBC World

Service. I'm William Lee Adams. Good morning. The Chinese President Xi Jinping has told leaders

attending the Asia-Pacific Summit in South Korea to deepen economic cooperation in the face

of global uncertainty. Leaders of other Asian nations at the conference remain wary of Beijing's

economic dominance despite their need for trade with China. Let's cross over to Singapore now to

hear more from our business reporter Nick Marsh, Nick Hello. Hi, William. There's still plenty to digest after that fairly positive meeting between Donald Trump and

Xi Jinping yesterday in South Korea, soybeans, fentanyl, rare earths.

Have we seen any concrete movement on the issues they discussed?

Well, the American side are saying some kind of deal might be signed as early as next

week.

The Chinese side have been a bit more circumspect on that.

They haven't talked about any timelines at all.

But the world seems a bit more of a peaceful place after this meeting, shall we say, from a global trade perspective at least. And despite all the

meetings that have already taken place in South Korea, the main event, the APEC summit, is only now

getting underway. Yes, it's an agglomeration of all of the Asia-Pacific economies, of which

the United States and China are clearly the most important, but you've also got the host, South Korea, Japan, you've got all the Southeast Asian countries that were kind

of caught in the middle between Washington and Beijing, really, really important, 500 or million

so market there as well. Today's when the bilateral start happening, when the agreements start

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