Taiwan's representative at an Asia-Pacific summit met U.S. President Joe Biden on Friday and invited him to visit Taiwan in the near future, with the two men having a "lively" exchange of views, the island's delegation to the summit said.

Taiwan’s envoy to the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit, Lin Hsin-I, met with outgoing US President Joe Biden on Friday during the APEC Leaders’ Informal Dialogue in Peru’s Lima and extended an invitation for him to visit Taiwan,

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Chinese President Xi Jinping will arrive in Lima on Thursday, kicking off a week-long diplomatic blitz in Latin America by inaugurating the massive Chancay deep-water port, one of Beijing's most ambitious infrastructure investments in Latin America.

Chinese President Xi Jinping and his Peruvian counterpart Dina Boluarte officially inaugurated the Chancay megaport at an event in the Peruvian capital on Thursday. (AP video by Cesar Barreto)