CHINA/MIKE PENCE/TRADE WAR/TRUMP PEOPLE: “US and Chinese leaders presented opposing visions for the world in back-to-back speeches at the 2018 APEC conference in Papua New Guinea on Saturday [11-17-18], amid rising tensions between the world’s two major powers. Chinese President Xi Jinping spoke of the need for global cooperation and international trade, telling the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit there was no issue that countries couldn’t work out ‘through consultation’…But US Vice President Mike Pence, speaking after the Chinese leader, said while they had ‘great respect for President Xi’ and China, there would be no backing down on the trade war with Beijing until it ‘changes its ways.'”
–Ben Westcott, “Xi Jinping says no one wins in ‘cold war,’ but Pence won’t back down,” CNN Politics, CNN.com, November 16, 2018 6:34 am