{"id":269172,"date":"2023-11-14T18:31:16","date_gmt":"2023-11-14T13:01:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/?p=269172"},"modified":"2023-11-14T18:31:16","modified_gmt":"2023-11-14T13:01:16","slug":"asia-pacific-economic-cooperation-apec-xi-biden-to-attend-apec-grouping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/asia-pacific-economic-cooperation-apec-xi-biden-to-attend-apec-grouping\/","title":{"rendered":"Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC): Xi-Biden to attend APEC grouping"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Source: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The post is based on the articl<\/span>e <b>\u201c<\/b><b>Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC): <\/b><b>Xi-Biden to attend APEC grouping\u201d <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">published in <\/span><b>\u201cIndian Express\u201d on 14th November 2023<\/b><\/p>\n<h2><strong>Why in the News?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) grouping is meeting in San Francisco in the United States.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><strong>What is Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC)?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_269173\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-269173\" style=\"width: 455px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-269173 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/asiapacific-economic-cooperation-apec-international-260nw-2221300161.jpg.webp?resize=455%2C280&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"APEC\" width=\"455\" height=\"280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/asiapacific-economic-cooperation-apec-international-260nw-2221300161.jpg.webp?w=455&amp;ssl=1 455w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/asiapacific-economic-cooperation-apec-international-260nw-2221300161.jpg.webp?resize=300%2C185&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 455px) 100vw, 455px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-269173\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>Source:<\/strong> Shuttershock<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<table style=\"height: 608px; width: 100%; border-style: solid;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr style=\"height: 30px;\">\n<td style=\"height: 30px;\"><b>Specifications<\/b><\/td>\n<td style=\"height: 30px;\"><b>Details<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 30px;\">\n<td style=\"height: 30px;\"><b>Established in<\/b><\/td>\n<td style=\"height: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">1989<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 30px;\">\n<td style=\"height: 30px;\"><b>Type<\/b><\/td>\n<td style=\"height: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Regional economic forum\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 90px;\">\n<td style=\"height: 90px;\"><b>Aim<\/b><\/td>\n<td style=\"height: 90px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To leverage the growing interdependence of the Asia-Pacific and create greater prosperity for the people of the region through regional economic integration<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 90px;\">\n<td style=\"height: 90px;\"><b>Main Objective<\/b><\/td>\n<td style=\"height: 90px;\"><b>Seoul Declaration (1991)<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: As per this, APEC member economies proclaimed the creation of a liberalized free trade area around the Pacific Rim as the principle objective.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 120px;\">\n<td style=\"height: 120px;\"><b>Members<\/b><\/td>\n<td style=\"height: 120px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">21 (Australia, Brunei, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Hong Kong (as part of China), the Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia, Vietnam, Singapore, Thailand, Chinese Taipei (Taiwan), China, Japan, South Korea, Russia, Canada, the United States, Mexico, Peru and Chile)<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 60px;\">\n<td style=\"height: 60px;\"><b>India<\/b><\/td>\n<td style=\"height: 60px;\"><b>India is not a member of the group<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (India has expressed interest in joining APEC and made a formal request in 1991)<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 128px;\">\n<td style=\"height: 128px;\"><b>Significance<\/b><\/td>\n<td style=\"height: 128px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">APEC economies make up roughly 60% of global GDP.<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As of 2018, they represented 48 percent of global trade.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 30px;\">\n<td style=\"height: 30px;\"><b>Secretariat<\/b><\/td>\n<td style=\"height: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Singapore<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><strong>UPSC Syllabus:<\/strong> International Organisations<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The post is based on the article \u201cAsia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC): Xi-Biden to attend APEC grouping\u201d published in \u201cIndian Express\u201d on 14th November 2023 Why in the News? The Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) grouping is meeting in San Francisco in the United States. What is Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC)? Specifications Details Established in 1989&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/asia-pacific-economic-cooperation-apec-xi-biden-to-attend-apec-grouping\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC): Xi-Biden to attend APEC grouping<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,164,1236,1],"tags":[11872,10500],"class_list":["post-269172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-international-relations-daily-factly-articles","category-international-organisations","category-uncategorized","tag-9pm-daily-factly","tag-indian-express","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1699976084},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=269172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269172\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}