President Biden stood awkwardly within the again nook of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) household photograph on Saturday, whereas different prime world leaders had been noticed entrance and middle.
Chinese Prime Minister Xi Jinping was featured prominently within the middle of the photograph, subsequent to Peruvian President Dina Boluarte. Boluarte hosted world leaders in Lima for this yr’s APEC summit.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was within the entrance row to Xi’s proper, together with Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese.
The photographs present Biden smiling and laughing with Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim and Thai Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra because the household photograph was taken. This weekend, Biden held closed-door conferences with quite a lot of leaders, together with Boluarte and Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba.
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President Biden was positioned within the again nook of this yr’s APEC photograph, whereas Xi Jinping was positioned within the entrance.
The place within the {photograph} of Biden, who will depart workplace in January, deviates from the standard place of American leaders. Last yr, Biden was on the middle of the 2023 APEC household photograph, hosted in San Francisco. Trudeau and Xi had been to Biden’s proper.
In 2017, former President Trump was on the middle of that yr’s APEC household photograph, alongside the Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin.
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US President Joe Biden (prime, second proper) and different leaders take part in a household photograph through the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) leaders’ retreat summit in Lima, Peru, on Saturday.
The convention occurred almost two weeks after the 2024 presidential election, the place Vice President Harris he misplaced to Trump in an enormous upset victory. Biden met with the Republican chief this week to debate the transition course of.
“I look ahead… to having a clean transition. We will do the whole lot we will to ensure you are settled and have what you want,” the Democratic president he informed Trump through the assembly.
World leaders, together with President Joe Biden, entrance row, stand for a “household photograph” through the 2023 Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Leaders’ Week on the Moscone Center in San Francisco.
“I very a lot admire such a clean transition,” Trump responded. “It shall be as clean as doable and I actually admire that.”
Fox News Digital’s Paul Steinhauser and Brooke Singman contributed to this report.
Original article supply: Biden stands awkwardly behind the APEC photo with China’s Xi Jinping front and center
