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Click here to visit the new home of Politics Daily!With Chinese President Hu Jintao set to arrive in Washington next week, U.S. and Chinese officials are busy laying the foundation for the crucial economic policy discussions of the visit. From the Atlantic Wire In a speech on Wednesday, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner called on the Chinese government to reduce barriers to U.S. imports, curb intellectual property theft and allow the value of its currency -- the renminbi -- to rise more rapidly. That same day, Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Cui Tiankai raised concerns about the security of China's U.S. investments, while ...
We'll call it the Hamburger Summit. Proclaiming a new era of U.S.-Russian cooperation -- a "Reset" relationship, as the White House would have it -- President Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev rolled up their sleeves at Ray's Hell Burger in Arlington, Va., on Thursday to chow down on cheeseburgers and fries, though the talk did drift into significantly meatier subjects (pun intended). Among them, Medvedev and Obama discussed Russia's entry into the World Trade Organization (WTO), continued cooperation on arms reduction, nuclear proliferation, Iran sanctions, and the war in ...
WASHINGTON (May 25) -- Underlying President Barack Obama's new National Security Strategy is a simple bottom line: It takes a global village to heal the world. Cowboy diplomats? Time to ride into the sunset. In a clear about-face from the go-it-alone foreign policies of George W. Bush, the Obama administration this week unveils a new approach that emphasizes international cooperation and engagement with allies on the most vexing problems, such as climate change, the spread of nuclear weapons and economic insecurity. In a commencement speech to cadets at the U.S. Military Academy at West ...
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