Obama leaves for China, Myanmar, Australia tour
Obama left Washington in the pre-dawn hours en route to an air force base in Alaska, where his plane refueled before traveling on to Beijing.
The US leader was accompanied on his eight-day trip, which also includes visits to Myanmar and Australia, by his national security adviser Susan Rice and several other top aides.
The China leg of his trip will be dominated by Obama's meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing, where the White House said it expects "candid and in-depth conversations."
The relationship between the two superpowers, which US Secretary of State John Kerry has called the "most consequential" in the world today, has been marred by tensions over the South China Sea, cyberspying and human rights issues.
In this set of meetings here, Obama is doing what Obama does best; campaigning. But of course, it's not for votes; it's for certain financial opportunities and considerations, which he most likely will not get.
China is avoiding doing business transactions in the dollar, and this trend is not going to stop.
China has a trade surplus. As reported on 7 November, 2014 in businessinsider.com:
The US has a trade deficit. As reported by AP on 4 November 2014:
And "...cyberspying and human rights issues" will be on the agenda?!?
Please.
As if the US government wasn't spying on China (and everyone else, apparently, after the revelations of NSAgate!!)
And after the Patriot Act, US torture of prisoners of war, the Homeland Security Act,the NDAA, and the way Americans are treated by police, Obama doesn't have much "wiggle room" on those two issues at all.
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