Obama’s “pivot to Asia” turned out to be a neo-containment policy toward China. The “reset” with Russia, declared after Obama appointed Hillary Clinton secretary of state, flopped and turned into the virulent animosity we now live with daily. ..…
Releasing those cleared by review boards or courts would be an obvious victory for civil liberties and human rights, most strikingly in the case of the Uighur prisoners—Chinese Muslims who had never been anti-American but who could not be returned to China for fear of torture and other punishment...…
The Obama administration has accused China of being behind the recently-revealed hack of information. ..…
China will then host the meeting of the G20, and 2016 will also be the last year of the Obama administration. ... And that would also allow President Obama to make President Xi a genuine offer of a strategic partnership with China when he visits Washington in September. ...…
While Obama claimed to support the Syrian rebels, he did nothing to help them. ... Obama is therefore reluctant to launch what would be a profoundly unpopular and risky ground invasion of Iraq. . ..…
However, CFR members express less positive views of Obama’s handling of global climate change, Pakistan and China than they did four years ago. ... Obama’s approval on Pakistan has fallen 14 points (from 66% to 52%) and 10 points on China (from 79% to 69%). . ..…
More Americans now disapprove of President Obama is doing overseas China, since he started his second term.. ..…
Standing up for America’s right to make its own rules and live its own unique destiny has become an obligatory part of campaign rhetoric at a time when China is on the rise and the American economy is struggling back to its feet. Barack Obama learned this to his cost in 2009. When asked by..…
And while the foreign policy opinion leaders differ with the public about many issues – including President Obama’s foreign policy, the war in Afghanistan and China – a growing proportion of Council on Foreign Relations members agree that the United States is a less important world..…
They are very, very upset not about Putin in Ukraine, as they say, but about Putin in Syria where he exposed the fact that the West was allied with the Saudis in funding and arming terrorists and Putin demonstrated you could defeat terrorism if you cut off the supply line from Obama’s friends in Saudi..…