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Copenhagen Goals Scaled Back: World Leaders Put Off Climate Change Treaty

TIME | Bryan Walsh Sunday, Nov. 15, 2009 | Posted 11.15.2009 | Green

Read More: Lokke Rasmussen, Apec, Carbon Emissions, Obama, Kyoto, Obama Visit, Climate Change Treaty, White House, Singapore, Climate Change, Talk, Kyoto Treaty, Japan, Asia, Un, Copenhagen, China, Rhetoric, Green News

Confirming doubts that had been growing for months, the world leaders in attendance at APEC -- along with Danish Prime Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen -...

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Obama's Human Rights Opportunity in Singapore

Robert Amsterdam | Posted 11.11.2009 | World

Read More: Freedom of Assembly, Apec, Chee Soon Juan, Democracy, Canada, Obama, Autocracy, Defamation, Singapore Democratic Party, Amnesty International, Freedom of Speech, People's Action Party, Singapore, Lee Kuan Yew, Human Rights, Asean, Freedom of Expression, Harper, World News

Any American president should be horrified by the conditions under which opponents of the regime in Singapore have been harassed. The APEC summit presents an opportunity to set the record straight.

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The War on Terrorism Ends; and the Winner is... China

Leon T. Hadar | Posted 11.11.2009 | World

Read More: Singapore, Lee Kuan Yew, Apec, Asean, Greater Middle East, South Korea, Condoleeza Rice, George W Bush, Obama, China, Japan, World News

The American neglect of the Asia-Pacific region and its policy concerns has not only alienated its friends in the region. It has also hurt long term U.S. economic and strategic interests.

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Bush In A Poncho (SLIDESHOW)

AFP/Getty | Posted 12.25.2008 | Style

Read More: Slideshow, Apec, Peru, George W. Bush, Lima, Ponchos, Bush Poncho, Style News

This past weekend President Bush donned a traditional Peruvian poncho for the Asian Pacific Economic Cooperation forum in Lima. The visit is Bush's ...