US hoping to reassert influence over Asia-Pacific during APEC summit

ViewSmiling and shaking hands, U.S. and Chinese officials meeting in San Francisco are trying to play nice.

"We do not seek to decouple our economy from China's. This would be damaging to both the U.S. and China and destabilizing to the world," said Janet Yellin, the U.S. Treasury Secretary.

But tensions between the U.S....