APEC峰会明争暗斗

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Jane Perlez, APEC峰会明争暗斗，中美冲突激化进入新阶段？  纽约时报中文网, Nov 20, 2018.
https://cn.nytimes.com/asia-pacific/20181120/apec-us-china-trade/

, which is translated from

Jane Perlez, US-China Clash at Asian Summit Was Over More Than Words. New York Times, Nov 20, 2018.

Note:
(a) "Hugh White, a former military strategist for the Australian government and author of 'The China Choice.'

Hugh White, The China Choice; Why we should share power. Oxford University Press, 2013.
(b) At APEC, "China may also have been rattled by the American decision to join hands with its major allies, Japan and Australia, to increase its economic development assistance to Papua New Guinea and to embark on redeveloping a naval port there at Manus Island. * * * The United States is also working with Australia to develop the deepwater port at Manus Island [apparently, from the context, Japan to be involved in aid package only, not on Manus Island], which lies 1,060 miles south of the American territory of Guam.  Manus Island played an important role for the United States Navy in the defeat of Japan during World War II. Now it could play a strategic role against China's expansion in part because the port is big enough to hold large naval vessels and task groups, said Peter Dean, professor of war studies at the University of Western Australia."
(i) Read maps in
(A) Manus Island
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manus_Island
(B) Guam
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guam

The Guam map shows a globe, including Manus Island (which is not marked but if you know where it is from (b)(i)(A), you will see Manus Island is due south of Guam.
(ii) The Wikipedia page for time zone is does not show Guam (or Mariana Islands) and is poorly illustrated (no color difference between neighboring time zone) -- therefore hard to understand that time zone for UTC +10 is DISCONNECTED (because Japan is UTC +9). So please view time zones (standard time, without regard to daylight saving) in

Universal World Time Zones Converter Table. "Alien Homepage. de," undated.
http://alien-homepage.de/weather ... nverting_table.html