Howard Schneider: Obama hopes to resurrect influence of Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum

[WP] Amid the thick brush of international economic and political gatherings, the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum has always been a sort of second-string operation — attended by heads of state, of course, but as noted for its tribal garb “family photo” of leaders as for its trade or diplomatic breakthroughs. As one corporate lobbyist recently noted, the group has been derided as “four adjectives in search of a verb,” and there has been little to counter that notion in recent years...More

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