China has not yet officially said who will attend, but US president Donald Trump and Russian president Vladimir Putin are expected to meet Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping during the summit. (EPA Images pic)HONG KONG: Attention will focus next week on a summit of US, Chinese and Russian leaders set for the 21-member gathering of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (Apec) forum in China's southern technology hub of Shenzhen.
Founded as an informal 12-member dialogue effort in 1989 in the Australian capital of Canberra, it has become the region's premier economic forum to foster ties on advancing growth, trade and investment.
Accounting for about 62% of global GDP and roughly half of global trade, the grouping of "member economies" rather than nations allows participation by Chinese-ruled Hong Kong and democratically governed Taiwan, which Beijing claims as its own territory.
