Tensions between the U.S. and China escalated on the final day of the 2018 Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit, forcing the 21 members to wrap up without a joint declaration for the first time since meetings began in 1993. Papua New Guinean Prime Minister Peter O'Neill, who hosted and chaired this year's summit, said he would issue a chairman's statement later as a substitute. "There is a statement of consensus that has been agreed to by the leaders that I am authorized to release," O'Neill said. "Out of that, there are only one or two issues they disagreed on." U.S. President Donald Trump and his Chinese ... (full story)