Unrest forces Chile to pull out as host of 2 key summits

Chile’s abrupt withdrawal as a host upended plans for an expected meeting between President Donald Trump and President Xi Jinping of China, who had both been scheduled to attend the trade summit in mid-November.

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President Sebastián Piñera of Chile addresses the United Nations General Assembly at U.N. headquarters in New York on Sept. 24, 2019. Piñera said on Wednesday, OCt. 30, 2019, that his country, which has been rocked by a wave of recent protests, was not in a position to host a key United Nations climate change meeting and a major Asia-Pacific trade summit later this year. (Dave Sanders/The New York Times/File Photo)

(Written by Ernesto Londoño and Somini Sengupta)