APEC economies are also hoping to finalize a number of trade agreements during upcoming meetings in Beijing. APEC Secretariat Executive Director Alan Bollard spoke on these negotiations, and on China's efforts for this year's leaders meetings.
"At the minute, we’ve got a number of these trade negotiations under way. There are different things, they’re going to move in different time lines. China has been saying, well, what about beyond them, where we are all heading. We’ve known general terms, but China’s trying to put a lot more details on there about where we are going, about how long it might take, about the different ways of getting there... China has shown strong leadership through this year, actually picked up from a very big agenda, maybe bigger than usual. And that’s not easy, it has to get agreement for APEC right around the table, every economy has to agree. So it’s been a big exercise," Bollard says.