Anthony Albanese urges APEC leaders to avoid isolation

ABC NEWS (Australia)

The Prime Minister has urged APEC leaders to avoid retreating into isolation – as the summit gets underway in Peru. Anthony Albanese's support for free trade and continued action on climate change – ahead of Donald Trump's return to power – has won praise from China's state-run media.

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00:00The Prime Minister has come to this APEC summit here in Peru with a message that Australia

00:06wants to see trade remain free and fair, it wants to see action on climate change continue,

00:12and it wants to avoid any retreat into isolationism.

00:16While not pointing the finger directly at Donald Trump over these things, China's state-run

00:20media, the People's Daily, has praised Anthony Albanese for what it says is showing more

00:25strategic autonomy, not gluing itself to the United States' foreign policy.

00:31As for the outgoing US President Joe Biden, he is here in Peru and had a warm exchange

00:36with Anthony Albanese in the first APEC session here today.

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