Topic: Asia
Former House speaker Newt Gingrich cemented his place as the main rival to Mitt Romney for the Republican presidential nomination with a solid debate performance on foreign policy.Buoyed by opinion polls that gave him a four percent lead over the former Massachusetts ...
President Barack Obama Thursday pledged he would not let a Washington budget crunch compromise an expansive vision and military presence designed to cement America as a top Pacific power.In a message aimed both at a dynamic region he sees as key to ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Obama administration is willing to work with Congress on a bill to address China currency and trade concerns but believes some provisions of pending legislation would violate international trade rules, a top U.S. Treasury official said on Tuesday."Aspects ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democratic lawmakers on Friday vowed to keep pressing for a vote in the House of Representatives on China currency legislation now blocked by Republican leaders."I urge the Republican leadership to put the currency bill on the floor," a top ...
US President Barack Obama called Uzbekistan's President Islam Karimov to congratulate the former Soviet state on its 20th anniversary of independence, the White House said."President Obama expressed our view that a more prosperous and secure Uzbekistan benefits both countries, and that advancing ...
The Obama administration is considering placing the Haqqani network on its list of terror groups after blaming the militants for deadly attacks in Afghanistan, a US official said Monday.Seven leaders of the Haqqani network, which operates from safe havens in Pakistan and ...
The US Senate on Tuesday rejected a Republican push to expand President Barack Obama's powers to negotiate trade deals, amid a broader fight over accords with Colombia, Panama, and South Korea.With those three deals edging towards approval in the divided US Congress, ...
US Commerce Secretary Gary Locke won unanimous Senate confirmation Wednesday as ambassador to Beijing, becoming the first Chinese American to hold the prestigious and difficult diplomatic post.Locke, whose grandfather came from China to the United States on a steamboat, promised during his ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Senator Rob Portman on Wednesday urged President Barack Obama to quickly send three long-delayed free-trade pacts to Congress for approval, rather than wait until after the August congressional recess.Portman, a former U.S. trade representative under President George W. Bush, ...
Gary Locke, the nominee to be the next US ambassador to China, promised Thursday he would be a forceful advocate for human rights while seeking broad cooperation with Beijing.Locke, the commerce secretary who would be the first Chinese-American ambassador to Beijing, told ...
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