Edmund Malesky appears in National Journal Online
10/02/2009
David Gauvey Herbert,
nationaljournal.com
Southeast Asia is something of a potpourri for foreign policymakers. The region includes the world's largest Muslim-majority nation in Indonesia, booming bilateral trade, terrorism, one of the world's most repressive regimes in Myanmar, and growing Chinese influence.
The Obama administration hinted at how it will weigh these variables in July, when Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton signed a treaty with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, bringing the U.S. closer to an organization that the Bush White House largely spurned.
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