While Seoul and Washington say the system is intended exclusively to defend against North Korea’s missile threat, Beijing says it will allow the US military to peer deep into northeastern China.
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Obama, Xi and other leaders called during the meeting for governments to defend free trade.
North Korea fired off three ballistic missiles as the summit concluded, underscoring its willingness to take aggressive steps and assert itself in the region.
World leaders are meeting in the eastern Chinese city of Hangzhou for a G20 summit.
The United States and Russian Federation have been trying to reach a deal over the Syria crisis.
“The benefits of trade and open markets must be communicated to the wider public more effectively”, said the joint statement.
05 de septiembre de 2016, 10:11Moscow, Sep 5 (Prensa Latina) Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke on Monday to his USA counterpart, Barack Obama, parallel to the G20 summit in the Chinese city of Hangzhou, according to reports on Russian television.
A second day of talks in China between Secretary of State John Kerry and his Russian counterpart, Sergey Lavrov, ended Monday without a deal to announce.
“President Xi accurately raised the alarm on the need to counter the increase in protectionism around the world”, said James Zimmerman, chairman of the American Chamber of Commerce in China. The strategy has hinged on an unlikely US-Russian militarily partnership against extremist groups operating in Syria.
Britain’s vote in favor of leaving the European Union was highlighted as adding uncertainty to the global economy, with the G-20 expressing hopes that the United Kingdom would be a close partner of the EU.
“If and when we have a meeting, this is something that is going to be brought up”, Obama said, referring to a spate of extrajudicial killings of purported drug dealers that have transpired since Duterte took officer earlier this year.
Several diplomats familiar with the summit said China had resisted the idea of putting steel on the final communique, though it did make an appearance in the end with G20 leaders pledging to work together to address excess steel capacity.
International Monetary Fund Managing Director Christine Lagarde, speaking after the summit, also said more inclusive growth was a priority in the global economy.
The meeting was frequently overshadowed by other concerns and got off to a rocky start Saturday when there was no staircase at the airport for Obama to exit his plane.
China levelled responsibility at the United States and journalists for the fracas.
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Duterte is not the first erratic president of the Philippines, but his unpredictability and willingness to fan latent colonial resentment against the U.S. represents an unwanted disruption for the White House at the end of Obama’s tenure.
