A landmark ruling in Cambodia found two Khmer Rouge Officials Guilty of genocide, while disagreements between China and the United States - with different narratives of the disagreements, as both countries blamed one another - resulted in the failure of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) to agree on a leaders' communique for the first time in its history. In Cambodia, where more than 1.7 million people died from forced labour, starvation, and execution under the Khmer Rouge regime between 1975 and 1979, an international tribunal found two Khmer Rouge officials guilty of genocide. And in Papua New Guinea, APEC failed to agree on a leaders' communique because of deep divisions between China and the United States over trade and investment, and the chairman of the meeting said "the sticking point was over whether mention of the World Trade Organisation and its possible reform should be in the [declaration]". Continue reading →