President Biden awkwardly stood in the back corner of this year's APEC family photo on Saturday, which prominently featured Xi Jinping and Justin Trudeau towards the center.

Amid the countries’ jostle for power, Chinese President Xi Jinping and his American counterpart Joe Biden agreed that humans, not artificial intelligence, would make the final decisions on the use of nuclear weapons.

After two days of meetings in Lima that rarely ventured beyond platitudes in discussing the strategies of the region’s major economies, the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum wrapped up Saturday with a spirit of detente that many fear the annual summit may not see again for four years.