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Japan, China agree to improve military, political exchanges Tokyo (AFP) Nov 20, 2009 
The foreign ministers of Japan and China agreed Thursday to advance political and military exchanges in a bid to foster mutual trust, a Japanese diplomat said. Japan's Katsuya Okada and his Chinese counterpart Yang Jiechi also reiterated their shared resolve to press North Korea to stop its nuclear programmes, to tackle climate change and to boost economic cooperation, he said. ... read moreHope but few gains on Obama's China debut 
Beijing (AFP) Nov 18, 2009US President Barack Obama made few breakthroughs but left Beijing on Wednesday hoping he had nurtured a bond with China vital to tackling the gravest global threats. Any aspirations of a complementary compact with the Chinese people though were muffled by state censorship, on a trip which failed to move Beijing on several key issues such as the value of the yuan, trade imbalances or Iran. ... more
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Obama, Hu set for key talks in Beijing
Beijing (AFP) Nov 17, 2009US President Barack Obama will Tuesday attack the formal business of his visit to China, sitting down with his opposite number Hu Jintao for talks centred on trade tensions and US calls for a stronger yuan. Their discussions follow Obama's town hall-style meeting with students in Shanghai on Monday where he acknowledged difficulties in China-US ties but said they need not be adversaries. ... more Walker's World: Obama's China problem 
Paris (UPI) Nov 16, 2009 Whatever U.S. President Barack Obama was hoping to achieve at the Asia-Pacific summit in Singapore, it seems on the surface that he failed on two of the headline issues. First, the summit of 21 nations, including Russia, Mexico and Australia as well as the United States and China, backed away from the commitment in the draft communique to halve greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. Instead ... more Obama vows to deepen ties at start of Asia tour 
Tokyo (AFP) Nov 14, 2009Barack Obama insisted that the United States was a "Pacific" power and vowed to deepen its engagement in the region as he started his first Asian tour as US president. "The United States will strengthen our alliances, build new partnerships and we will be part of multilateral efforts and regional institutions that advance regional security and prosperity," he said Friday in Tokyo. ... more Obama bids for Russian help on Iran 
Singapore (AFP) Nov 14, 2009The US and Russian presidents meet at an Asia-Pacific summit here Sunday with Barack Obama eager to secure Moscow's backing to break the stand-off over Iran's nuclear ambitions. Obama will want to hear from Russian President Dmitry Medvedev whether the Kremlin detects any signs of Tehran moderating its defiance and whether Russia will back tough sanctions if diplomacy fails. But in their ... more |
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Obama urges Japan to keep US bases pact
Tokyo (AFP) Nov 10, 2009US President Barack Obama urged Japan's new centre-left government on Tuesday to keep a pact allowing US bases on its territory, as both sides laid the groundwork for his visit to Tokyo this week. Obama also said he wanted to one day become the first sitting US president to visit the nuclear-bombed cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, while Japan said it would help the US effort in Afghanistan ... more Obama's speech at Fort Hood memorial 
Fort Hood, Texas (AFP) Nov 10, 2009Herewith excerpts from President Barack Obama's speech Tuesday to the memorial to honor the 13 people killed in last week's shooting spree at Fort Hood military base in Texas: "We come together filled with sorrow for the thirteen Americans that we have lost; with gratitude for the lives that they led; and with a determination to honor them through the work we carry on. "This is a time of ... more Walker's World: Europe after the Wall 
Frankfurt, Germany (UPI) Nov 9, 2009 Exactly 20 years ago a grand historical shift took place. Like the fall of the Roman Empire or the defeat of the Islamic invasions of Europe at Tours in the eighth century or at the gates of Vienna in the 17th, it was an event that seems fated to define a whole era of global history. And it may be the last occasion when a moment so portentous takes place in Europe. For the fall of the ... more Dalai Lama draws huge crowds on visit slammed by China 
Tawang, India (AFP) Nov 9, 2009The Dalai Lama held a mass audience with tens of thousands of devotees Monday on a "non-political" visit to a region near India's border with Tibet that has drawn strong protests from China. More than 30,000 people, many of whom arrived days in advance, packed into an open-air polo ground near the remote Tawang monastery in the northeast Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh to hear the exiled ... more |
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