Burma is not Vietnam. Vietnam is not Burma.
There's an old saying in the Marine Corps, that a lot of times when you are up to your neck in alligators, you tend to forget that you came ...
I think it will be very clear that the central arena of historical and strategic challenges and opportunities for the United States is actua...
The United States is a Pacific nation in terms of our history, our culture, our economy, and our national security.
I do believe that this is an issue that is part of our strategic dialogue with China.
I think it is also the view of particularly President Obama and Secretary Clinton that not only is it important to talk about these values, ...
With respect to human rights situations inside China, these are the numbers that I received from my staff, from the State Department's repor...
if we, as a nation, tolerate certain activities by closed systems that have a great deal of power, then these emerging governments will see ...
I believe, that the time has come to undertake a comparative assessment of how our policies toward Asian governments effect our relationship...
I think if you ask many Americans today what is the central focus, regionally, of American foreign policy, they all would say it is South As...
I think there is a strong bipartisan commitment to Asia, with specific steps and values that have animated our overall engagement for decade...
the promotion of democracy and human rights is an essential element of American foreign policy.
It would be an enormous mistake for any administration to neglect this critical dimension of our foreign policy.
And this doesn't just to go into the China situation. It's to talk about, fundamentally, whether we have a consistent policy that people in ...
the best way for the United States to be understood inside these isolated countries is to do what we can, according to the precepts which we...
I fundamentally, violently agree with your logic here.
I have seen some positive movement, in terms of how they are dealing with Aung San Suu Kyi.
Many on the other side of the aisle recently have taken the position that deficits are a bad thing, while simultaneously ignoring the signif...