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Kurt Tong is managing partner at strategic advisory firm The Asia Group in Washington and a member of the advisory board of the American Association of the Indo-Pacific. He previously served as U.S. ambassador for Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation.
In 2016, Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation leaders, including Chinese President Xi Jinping and his then-U.S. counterpart Barack Obama, endorsed a shared vision of a Free Trade Area of the Asia-Pacific, a regionwide free trade agreement that would include all APEC members.
