Inaugurating APEC, Xi urges faster talks on China-backed free trade area

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By Michael Martina BEIJING (Reuters) - The global economic recovery is unstable and nations in the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) bloc should speed up free trade talks to spur growth, Chinese President Xi Jinping said on Tuesday. Speaking at the start of this year's APEC summit, Xi urged the 21-member forum to speed up talks on a trade liberalization framework called the Free Trade Area of the Asia Pacific (FTAAP) that is being pushed by Beijing. "Currently, the global economic recovery still faces many unstable and uncertain factors. ...




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