Posted on 11/15/2009 10:25:12 AM PST by Steelfish
NOVEMBER 15, 2009 Concerns Rise Around Obama Trip
JONATHAN WEISMAN
SHANGHAI -- President Barack Obama arrived here late Sunday to press China on issues from climate change to economic restructuring, amid rising concerns that his first swing through Asia as president will yield more disappointment than progress on trade, human rights, national security and environmental concerns.
A flurry of actions in Singapore this weekend raised more questions than they resolved on a broad sweep of issues confronting both sides of the Pacific. On Sunday, leaders of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum dropped efforts to reach a binding international climate-change agreement in Copenhagen next month, settling instead for what they called a political framework for future negotiations.
Mr. Obama became the first president to meet with the entire Association of Southeast Asian Nations, including the military junta of Myanmar, and White House officials say he personally demanded the country's leaders release political prisoners, including opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi. But Mr. Obama failed to secure any mention of political prisoners in an ASEAN communiqué.
The U.S. and Russia now appear unlikely to complete a nuclear arms reduction accord by Dec. 5, when the current Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty expires. Mr. Obama met for closed-door consultations with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, but National Security Council Russia specialist Michael McFaul said major issues remain, and the two countries are working out a "bridging agreement" to extend previous arms-ratification rules.
On trade, the U.S. president committed this weekend to re-engage the Trans Pacific Partnership, a fledgling free trade alliance in the region. But a presidential shift in tone toward more trade engagement will face its real test Thursday when Mr. Obama visits South Korea to discuss a free trade agreement with that country that remains stuck.
And on Iran,.....
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Bull. He probably asked their advice on how he can create some kind of Junta here in America.
he personally demanded the country’s leaders release political prisoners, including opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi.
He DEMANDED???
Or what? He’ll get all wee-weed up?
I keep hearing from the left that he is restoring our dignity and goodwill that Republicans destroyed.
He is not repected in his own country, how is it expected that he will in their’s?
They’re already throwing in the towel for success on the Copenhagen Climate Change Comedy in December.
No doubt, he’s being told by the Asians to stick this carbon credit scam up his tailpipe.
Somewhere in America today a few hundred more people will scrape their Obama bumper stickers off their cars.
He should have received a SODA instead of a Nobel.
(Soap Opera Digest Award)
Do you ever look at the ones who still have it on their bumper? Code pink people are what I see.
I think the world’s leaders have figured out that the “one” is not quite as smart as he, himself, thinks he is.
You can’t tell me that the foreign intelligence agencies of China, Russia, India, Japan, Lichtenstein, etc. don’t have all the dirt on him that there is and just have to wave it in his face.
“concerns”?
Hussein is in perpetual campaign/”gimme more money” mode—except for those occasions where he apologizes for the United States.
When America wakes up and boots him and his party out of power, it’ll be a great day.
And an even better day will be when the party and person replacing Hussein will govern by CONSTITUTIONAL principles and not welfare-state ones.
He's making deals with China regarding our Tresury debt and the bonds the ChiComs are holding.
He's either promising to let them take over California when the Fed defaults, or assuring them that their military build up is okey-dokey with him and he won't be doing anything if they want to retake Taiwan.
I guarantee you, he's selling out some free people somewhere, and possibly all free people everywhere.
Well, you can’t kill American Exceptionalism all alone. You need the support of every other nation that wants to kill it.
Whats your point?
Why oh why is unemployment not a top priority? Obama wants to see the world on our tax money.
This is lip service, nothing more. 0bama is being shown how the game is played but it is highly doubtful that he is learning very much - the Russians are doing precisely what they need to be doing to succeed, which is to feed 0bama's ego and continue merrily down their own road anyway. With regard to the Iranians, they're laying down an ultimatum: agree to extensive commercial relations with Russian nuclear science or they'll be punished with extensive commercial relations with Russian nuclear science. You'd have to awfully naive to fall for this and 0bama is, in fact, awfully naive.
Actions have consequences, and the consequence of presenting oneself to the world as the anti-Bush is that one ends up stuck with a posture the country's opponents are delighted to see. With regard to Copenhagen, 0bama's demanding, "Beggar yourselves to accommodate our environmental political vanities" and naturally enough, the Chinese among others are replying, "You first." If Cap & Trade breaks the country as is extremely likely, they'll know not to try it.
Even the liberals knew going in that foreign policy was not going to be their candidate's strong suit, but it is dismaying to see just how feckless, ideology-driven, and amateurish 0bama is turning out to be. "Put the country's neck on the chopping block and they'll love us" isn't really the basis of a sound foreign policy. 0bama is being bribed by celebrity and besotted by propaganda, including his own. And he has surrounded himself with so many enablers that there is no one left to guide him.
“And he has surrounded himself with so many enablers that there is no one left to guide him.”
0 is beyond guidance. He wants to be “loved” by one and all. Peace-maker, deal-maker, global environmental-maker.
Yeah right! Just try getting a fifth of the worlds population to do anything. China has given birth to an emmerging consumer class of mostly 30 and under. They’re buying cars, plasma tvs, computers etc. You think they’re going to give that up because some American president says they should to ‘’save’’ the planet?
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