The APEC summit is happening this week in San Francisco. What is APEC, anyway?

By COLLEEN LONG and AAMER MADHANI
Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States is hosting the annual Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation conference this week for the first time since 2011. Leaders from the 21-member APEC group will gather in San Francisco to talk about how to better spur trade and economic growth across the Pacific region. But the main event will actually play out on the sidelines as President Joe Biden and Chinese leader Xi Jinping meet face-to-face. The conference is happening against the backdrop of the frosty relationship between China and the U.S., and global turmoil from the Israel-Hamas war and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.