Tag: APEC
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Biden rolls out new economic initiative for women at APEC, then botches female Peruvian president’s name and jokes that ‘We’re going to extend this conference another five days’ as he prepares to complete 4-day trip
President Joe Biden approached the completion of his hosting duties at the APEC Summit in San Francisco with a joke that could mean he’s having a good time or is ready to hop aboard Air Force One to take off. “We are going to extend this conference for another five days,” he joked as he…
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Elon Musk’s APEC cancellation was so abrupt that stand-in John Kerry had ‘no idea’ why he pulled out; SpaceX founder is shown greeting Xi Jinping on Chinese state TV after backtracking on antisemitic post
SpaceX founder Elon Musk’s withdrawal from an APEC event on artificial intelligence was so abrupt that his deputy John Kerry was not even told the reason for the cancellation. Musk withdrew from a planned on-stage “armchair conversation” on the emerging topic, despite visiting an event at the San Francisco meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping…
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Biden urged to meet the homeless in San Francisco as advocate compares APEC clean-up to ‘rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic’
President Joe Biden has been urged to meet San Francisco’s homeless and see the city’s misery first-hand, as advocates storm the APEC conference cleanup drive on the streets. San Francisco’s facelift for the summit involved moving members of the city’s growing homeless population to shelters without adding additional beds, which one advocate likened to rearranging…