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  • Obama's Asia itinerary revealed

    11/12/2009 10:38:06 AM PST · by STARWISE · 7 replies · 679+ views
    Here is President Obama's full itinerary for his trip to Asia, as conveyed by Ben Rhodes, deputy national security advisor for strategic communications, Jeffrey Bader, NSC senior director for East Asian affairs, and Michael Froman, deputy national security advisor for international economic affairs: "The overarching theme is that America is a Pacific nation, it understands the importance of Asia in the 21st Century, and it's going to be engaged in a very comprehensive way," said Rhodes. "I think it's a common perception in the region that U.S. influence has been on the decline in the last decade while Chinese influence...