Obama
May 07, 2013
The Obama administration's strategic shift to Asia is a smart policy, but its China blind spot could be its undoing, writes defense and security journalist Trefor Moss in The...
March 15, 2013
WASHINGTON--President Barack Obama took mounting U.S. concerns about computer hacking straight to China's president on March 14 in a sign of how seriously the United States...
March 13, 2013
New South Korean president Park Geun-hye is likely to continue many of her predecessor's policies toward the United States and pursue a strengthened bilateral relationship,...
February 28, 2013
The lack of progress in relations with China stands as the single largest vacuum in President Obama’s generally successful foreign policy, writes Fareed Zakaria, a Washington ...
January 31, 2013
A critical transition will occur from 2020 to 2025, when China surpasses the United States as the world’s biggest economy. But the rising power is still a long way from...
January 28, 2013
Containment is simply not a relevant policy tool for dealing with a rising China, writes Joseph S. Nye Jr., a professor at the Harvard Kennedy School. The United States and...
December 03, 2012
The re-election of Barack Obama signals to Asia that America's "pivot" or "rebalancing" toward that region will move forward in the carefully constructed framework laid out...
November 17, 2012
YANGON, Myanmar--When Arker Kyaw heard President Barack Obama was coming to Myanmar, he gathered 15 cans of spray paint and headed for a blank brick wall under cover of...
November 17, 2012
WASHINGTON--The United States said on Nov. 16 it will allow imports from Myanmar for the first time in nearly a decade, a move that could boost the struggling economy in the...
November 09, 2012
With the re-election of President Barack Obama, U.S. foreign policy based on international cooperation will continue for another four years.
May 19, 2012
Just 48 hours after the natural disaster that befell Japan last year, an unmanned U.S. military aircraft was surveying the devastation and relaying real-time information to...
April 26, 2012
WASHINGTON--In January, U.S. President Barack Obama outlined America’s new defense strategy, which shifts the country’s national security focus from the recent wars in Iraq ...
March 28, 2012
Three years ago, in his historic address in Prague, U.S. President Barack Obama called for a "world without nuclear weapons." On March 26, Obama indicated a "new step" toward...
February 20, 2012
Even though it didn’t solve any of the many tough challenges confronting the often volatile relationship between the two major powers, Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping’s...
February 15, 2012
WASHINGTON--The man destined to be China's next leader won an extraordinary welcome across Washington on Feb. 14, a finely scripted opening to one of the world's most important ...
February 15, 2012
WASHINGTON -- U.S. President Barack Obama told Chinese leader-in-waiting Xi Jinping on Feb. 14 that Beijing must play fair in international trade and vowed to keep pressing...
January 26, 2012
WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama on Jan. 24 said he was creating an enforcement unit to crack down on unfair trade practices in China and other countries and would beef up...
January 24, 2012
WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama will meet Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping, the country's likely next ruler, at the White House on Feb. 14, the White House said on Jan. 23.
January 07, 2012
BEIJING - China's state media stepped up its criticism on Jan. 7 of the United States' planned strategic shift into Asia, accusing Washington of being a "troublemaker"...
December 19, 2011
WASHINGTON--The death of North Korean leader Kim Jong Il could dim hopes for fresh nuclear talks with the United States and its key Asian allies as an untested and largely...