Obama Asia Trip

Obama Asserts US In Key Region

AP | TOM RAUM | Posted 01.21.2012

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WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama's close attention to the Asia-Pacific region signaled both a turn toward a part of the world experiencing so...

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Obama's Hunt For New Markets

AP | By ERICA WERNER | Posted 01.19.2012

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BALI, Indonesia -- After a nine-day trip through Asia in which he showed command on the world stage, President Barack Obama is headed back to debt-dea...

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Obama In Hawaii For Diplomatic Talks

AP | BEN FELLER | Posted 01.12.2012

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HONOLULU — Searching for help, President Barack Obama lobbied the skeptical leaders of Russia and China on Saturday for support in keeping Iran ...

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Obama Heads To Asia

AP | ERICA WERNER | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — Rebuked by voters, President Barack Obama is turning overseas, heading to Asia for 10 days of diplomacy, tourism and dealmaking tha...

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Are We Now a Paper Tiger Both in Fact and the Way the World Views Us?

Ed Koch | Posted 05.25.2011

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Has our country reached the point when we, like so many great nations before us, are no longer the leading state of our time?

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Tom Friedman: Anderson Cooper 'Did Country A Favor' By Busting Obama Myth

THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN | Posted 05.25.2011

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New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman used all of his latest column to praise Anderson Cooper for refuting the myth of the cost of President Obama'...

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Don't Cry for Me

Ed Koch | Posted 05.25.2011

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President Obama traveled to Asia last week seeking to make a big splash and bring home trade agreements that help American exports.

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PHOTOS: Behind The Scenes On Obama's Asia Tour

Posted 05.25.2011

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President Obama returned to the U.S. Sunday after a 10 day tour of Asia that took him through India, Indonesia, South Korea and Japan. From the region...

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Obama in Asia: Meeting American Decline Face to Face

Juan Cole | Posted 05.25.2011

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Beneath the pomp and splendor of Obama's journey through Asia has lurked a far tawdrier vision -- of a much weakened president presiding over a much weakened superpower, both looking somewhat desperately for succor abroad.

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Obama In Seoul As G20 Meeting Kicks Off

Posted 05.25.2011

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At the start of the G20 summit meeting, President Obama tried to calm fears of a currency war and other tensions that have stressed global economic ti...

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India and China Greedy in Burma; Obama Scolds

Betwa Sharma | Posted 05.25.2011

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Even as President Barack Obama endorsed India's candidacy for the U.N. Security Council, he scolded New Delhi for not being tough on its neighbor, Burma.

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Obama's Mahatma Moment

Vamsee Juluri | Posted 05.25.2011

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I hope in the future I will hear an Indian of substance say that it was an American, Barack Obama, who made something good possible for him or for her, just as President Obama said of the Mahatma today.

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White House Press Secretary EXPLODES At Indian Security Over Press Restrictions

Posted 05.25.2011

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White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs grew so angry with Indian security officials on Sunday that he got into a heated shouting match with them -- ...

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The Week In Review (PHOTOS)

Posted 05.25.2011

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The first week of November was a tough one for President Obama. Not only did he depart on a much-criticized tour of Asia following devastating U.S. mi...

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Recommitting to APEC

Karan Bhatia | Posted 05.25.2011

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The most significant part of Obama's post-mid-term election trip to Asia may well be his last stop -- the APEC Leaders' Meeting in Yokohama, Japan.

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WATCH: Cooper SLAMS Conservatives For Spreading 'Myth' About Obama Asia Trip

The Huffington Post | Jack Mirkinson | Posted 05.25.2011

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On Thrusday's "AC360," Anderson Cooper debunked the false story about the supposedly enormous price tag for President Obama's ten-day tour of Asia, an...

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Obama Delays Asia-Australia Trip Until June To Finalize Health Care Reform

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

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Hoping to see health care reform legislation to the end, President Barack Obama has once again delayed a trip to Australia and Asia, this time until J...

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Left, Right & Center: Health Care and Financial Reform, Al Qaeda 7, and The Hurt Locker

HuffPost Radio | Posted 05.25.2011

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Obama postponed his Asia trip for the final push on health care. Will it really come to a vote in 10 days? Is it political suicide for the Democrats?

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Obama Delaying Asia Trip To Work On Health Care

AP | JENNIFER LOVEN | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama has delayed his visit to Asia, his first international trip of the year, to focus on the push to salvage hea...

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Obama's China Town Hall (PHOTOS)

Posted 05.25.2011

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Obama held a historic town hall with around 500 Chinese students in Shanghai Monday in which he discussed how the free flow of information actually ma...

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Obama: U.S. Is Not Threatened By China

Posted 05.25.2011

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(AP) TOKYO — President Barack Obama declared Saturday that an era of American disengagement in the globe's fastest-growing region is over and wa...

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China Pushes Back On Obama

New York Times | HELENE COOPER and EDWARD WONG | Posted 05.25.2011

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President Obama made a big effort Tuesday at presenting his first visit to China as a step forward in America's evolving relationship with its fastest...

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Obama In China: 'Walks A Tightrope' In His First Visit

AP | JENNIFER LOVEN | Posted 05.25.2011

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SHANGHAI — President Barack Obama sought a political balance Monday on his first trip to China, seeking help on urgent global problems while wei...

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Japan Relations At A Low As Obama Visits

nytimes.com | HELENE COOPER | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON -- President Obama will arrive in Tokyo on Friday, at a time when America's relations with Japan are at their most contentious since the tr...

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Obama's China Town Hall: Handshakes And Vetted Questions

TIME | Posted 05.25.2011

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It was a Town Hall, but this time Barack Obama was not in Iowa or New Hampshire. There were no hay bales, no bunting, and no activists with questions ...

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