US President Barack Obama embarked Thursday on his first presidential tour of Asia, a trip that will include stops in Japan, China, South Korea and the APEC summit in Singapore, as well as a meeting with all 10 ASEAN countries of the leader.
US president Barack Obama want to seek counter charges that America's influence in the world's most populous region is fading amid the rise of China and the distraction of US-led wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The common perception in the region that US influence had been on the decline in the last decided in US. US President Barack wants to give one of the messages that the president will be sending in his visit is that we are an Asia-Pacific nation and we are there for the long haul. After refueling in Alaska, where he will address US troops, Osama’s first stop will be Japan, where he will make a major address in Tokyo on Saturday. Obama will then debut at the Asia Pacific Cooperation forum summit in Singapore, and attend the first-ever joint meeting of a US president and leaders of all 10 members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). But Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner suggested that Washington is also looking to its Asian trading partners to power demand in the meantime. As US households save more and the US reduces its fiscal deficit, others must spur greater growth of private demand in their own economies," Geithner said in an op-ed co-authored with his counterparts from Indonesia and Singapore and published Thursday in the Wall Street Journal.
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