US President Donald Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping had a bilateral meeting on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in South Korea. They met in Busan, South Korea, a port city about 76km south of Gyeongju, the main venue for APEC.

“We do not do trade deals with a gun to our head,” asserts Piyush Goyal at Berlin dialogue

India did not do trade agreements in a hurry or with a “gun to our head”, said Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal on October 24, speaking at the Berlin Global Dialogue (BGD 2025) in Germany.

Trump’s Asia comeback: ASEAN Summit opens in Malaysia with focus on trade, security, Myanmar

The meeting serves as a curtain-raiser for the annual Association of Southeast Asian Nations summit which starts on Sunday in Kuala Lumpur, followed by two days of high-level engagements with key partners including China, Japan, India, Australia, Russia, South Korea and the US.

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