President Sebastian Pinera announced earlier that Chile could no longer hold the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation summit and later Cop 25 climate change conference in Santiago, due to violent unrest in the city. Gidley said as of now there was no replacement location. "It's our understanding the organization does not currently have a secondary site prepared. We're awaiting potential information regarding another location," he said. Trump and Xi had been targeting an encounter on the sidelines of the APEC event to sign an initial agreement aimed at resolving an 18-month trade war between the world's two biggest economies.

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