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Barack Obama’s trip to Asia took in Japan, Singapore and China where the issue of the strength of the renminbi and the evolution of a new G2 dominated proceedings
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Obama treads fine line with India and China
The biggest area of potential misunderstanding between US and India flows from Mr Obama’s warm overtures to China, writes Edward Luce
Singh’s visit to ‘consolidate’ US-India ties
Attempt to revive good relations amid concerns that India has slipped down on the US priority list
Seoul ready to talk to US on cars
Lee Myung-bak, South Korea’s president, says Seoul is willing to ‘talk again’ to Washington on cars, the main sticking point in a stalled trade agreement between the two
Seoul juggles the US and China
When George Bush senior visited Seoul as US president 20 years ago, things were simple – the US was the undisputed main ally and trade partner. Now China is the main trade partner, but while business is booming, politics is rockier
Obama in Nixon’s footsteps at Great Wall
Barack Obama made an obligatory stop at the Great Wall of China at the close of a three-day visit in which he also bumped against the Great Firewall of China
Dalai Lama thanks Obama for support
Move follows US president raising Tibet in this week’s talks with Chinese President Hu Jintao
Obama visit yields few concrete results
A candid three-hour discussion in Beijing between Barack Obama and Hu Jintao, his Chinese counterpart, has failed to find much common ground on the US president’s agenda
US urges China to strengthen renminbi
Barack Obama has urged China to strengthen its currency as tensions over exchange rates and trade broke through a carefully-orchestrated show of co-operation between Washington and Beijing
Beijing remains guarded on Iran
Barack Obama, the US president, sought to convince China to increase pressure on Iran’s nuclear programme – but received no public commitment that Beijing would support sanctions
Obama is silenced by firewall of China
As Beijing TV runs a lengthy item about Barack Obama’s declining domestic popularity, the president does his best to boost his acclaim with the Chinese in a US-style ‘town hall’ event
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A wary willingness
China and America: While Barack Obama may have won Beijing’s agreement to collaborate on world problems, his hosts are reluctant to take on the costs of leadership
China blurs bipolar view of the world
The accepted bipolar view of the new world order – a line that magically divides the ‘developed’ from the ‘developing’ worlds – has always been somewhat illusory. But now, in the case of China in particular, it has become so inaccurate as to be misleading, writes James Kynge
Obama seeks change Beijing can believe in
The only way to nudge China towards common goals is to draw it in so that its priorities coalesce with those of other nations, writes David Pilling
Grim truths Obama should have told Hu
Obama should have made clear the need for China to revalue its currency and rebalance the global economy when he met Hu Jintao, writes Martin Wolf. He could reasonably threaten punitive action, such is the need for change
America must start treating China as a friend
Many think the Chinese are unable or unwilling to accept a progressive agenda, but we will never know unless we try, writes Bill Owens
Washington adapts to eastwards power shift
The US no longer has the luxury of being able to play teacher to China’s student, writes Edward Luce
Mr Obama goes to visit his creditors
When the US leader visits Asia, he does so as head of state of a battered superpower. No better symptom of US frailty can be found than the dollar – in which Asians have invested so much of their people’s hard-earned wealth. But he can only grin and ask his hosts to bear it
Decline but no fall
America and Asia: China may be chief beneficiary of the financial crisis and the latest challenger to US hegemony but a dependence on exports limits Beijing’s room for manoeuvre
Okinawa outcry
Barack Obama should use his rhetorical skills to give Japan’s government the space to reach a workable compromise on the US marine helicopter base
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