{"id":14932,"date":"2014-06-14T11:26:36","date_gmt":"2014-06-14T03:26:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=14932"},"modified":"2025-01-16T20:04:42","modified_gmt":"2025-01-17T01:04:42","slug":"asia-important-for-united-states-hillary-clinton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/06\/14\/asia-important-for-united-states-hillary-clinton\/","title":{"rendered":"Asia important for United States\u2014Hillary Clinton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"color: #000000;\">\n<figure id=\"attachment_14941\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14941\" style=\"width: 239px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Hillary_Clinton_official_Secretary_of_State_portrait_crop.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-14941\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Hillary_Clinton_official_Secretary_of_State_portrait_crop-239x300.jpg\" alt=\"Hillary Clinton \/ Wikipedia Photo\" width=\"239\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Hillary_Clinton_official_Secretary_of_State_portrait_crop-239x300.jpg 239w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Hillary_Clinton_official_Secretary_of_State_portrait_crop-819x1024.jpg 819w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 239px) 100vw, 239px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-14941\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hillary Clinton \/ Wikipedia Photo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;\">NEW YORK &#8212; Looking cheerful and confident, former United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton underscored Asia&#8217;s importance for the United States as she reminisced on Thursday of her four years as the U.S.&#8217;s top diplomat.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;\">During a discussion at the Council on Foreign Relations &#8212; America&#8217;s leading foreign policy think-tank &#8212; she recalled that her first foreign visit as secretary of state was to Asia as a manifestation of the US administration&#8217;s rebalancing of interest or, as some tend to call it, the Asia pivot.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;\">She said the rebalancing of interests was one of the strategic moves made in the first four years of the (U.S. President Barack) Obama Administration.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;\">The U.S. had always been a Pacific power but there was a &#8220;widespread feeling among our friends that the U.S. has, basically, vacated the field,&#8221; said Clinton, who is being tipped by the overwhelming majority of the Democratic Party as its presidential candidate for the 2016 election.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;\">&#8220;There is no doubt that much of the world history will be shaped in Asia. That&#8217;s why, I decided to first go to Asia&#8230;I went to Indonesia to sign a Treaty of Amity and Cooperation, committing the U.S. to be an active participant in the Asean region and eventually, become a member of the East Asian Summit.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;\">&#8220;Our goal was to support and embed the U.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy tadalista online <a href=\"https:\/\/ivvitamintherapylosangeles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/png\/tadalista.html\">https:\/\/ivvitamintherapylosangeles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/png\/tadalista.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p>S. in the multilateral architecture of Asia. It was also to assure our allies such as Japan, that we remain committed to them.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy rybelsus online <a href=\"https:\/\/ivvitamintherapylosangeles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/png\/rybelsus.html\">https:\/\/ivvitamintherapylosangeles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/png\/rybelsus.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;\">&#8220;We want to try to have a broad dialogue with China. Our dialogue with China will be about economics but we had a lot of strategic questions to be addressed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;\">&#8220;I worked with Tim Geithner (former treasury-secretary) and progress is being made on the TPP (Trans-Pacific Partnership) issue. The (U.S.) president will require fast-track authority from the Congress (to push the TPP),&#8221; she added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;\">Obama, who attaches priority to the TPP, also raised it in his recent talks in Kuala Lumpur with Malaysian Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;\">During the session, Clinton also provided a virtual &#8220;tour&#8221; of global flashpoints, saying that the situation in many parts of the world was worrisome.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy cialis professional online <a href=\"https:\/\/ivvitamintherapylosangeles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/png\/cialis-professional.html\">https:\/\/ivvitamintherapylosangeles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/png\/cialis-professional.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;\">Clinton, whose latest 656-page memoir book, &#8216;Hard Choices&#8217; has hit the stands, providing insights, sprinkled with interesting anecdotes, into not only the Department of State but her encounters with a number of world leaders.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK &#8212; Looking cheerful and confident, former United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton underscored Asia&#8217;s importance for the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":14941,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,17],"tags":[5243,2000],"class_list":["post-14932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-news-w","tag-asia-important-to-us","tag-hillary-clinton","mauthors-philippines-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14932"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14932\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":284734,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14932\/revisions\/284734"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}