NOVEMBER 2016 | International Law Alerts | Trade and Investment

Leaders of 21 Asia-Pacific nations ended their annual summit Sunday with a call to resist protectionism amid signs of increased free-trade skepticism, highlighted by the victory of Donald Trump in the U.S. presidential election.

Several US allies took aim at Donald Trump’s trade policies as China’s president made an impassioned call against the sort of protectionism favored by the president-elect at a summit of Asian-Pacific leaders on Saturday

President Duterte took advantage of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Leaders’ Summit recently in Peru and met separately with Chinese President Xi Jin Ping and Russian President Vladimir Putin.

President Rodrigo Duterte on Thursday said he would encourage more investors to do business in the Philippines in his attendance at the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (Apec) summit in Lima, Peru.