LIMA: Top world leaders will meet this week to chart a future for free trade -- almost a dirty word in a world upended by Donald Trump’s victory in the US presidential election.

US President Barack Obama, who campaigned against Trump as “unfit” to succeed him, must now reassure colleagues that a Trump presidency will not in fact spell disaster. Leaders will be looking for signals on the future of Obama’s much-vaunted “rebalance” to Asia and the Pacific.

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