US-China trade clash blocks APEC declaration

Forum ends without statement for first time in its history

20181118 APEC Port Moresby AP

APEC leaders including, from left, China's Xi Jinping, Papua New Guinean host Peter O'Neill, Japan's Shinzo Abe and U.S. Vice President Mike Pence pose in Port Moresby on Nov. 18.

MASAYUKI YUDA, CLIFF VENZON and WATARU SUZUKI, Nikkei staff writers

PORT MORESBY -- Tensions between the U.S. and China escalated on the final day of the 2018 Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit, forcing the 21 members to wrap up without a joint declaration for the first time since meetings began in 1993.

Papua New Guinean Prime Minister Peter O'Neill, who hosted and chaired this year's summit, said he would issue a chairman's statement later as a substitute.

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