Susan Shirk Comments On Chinese Policy Towards U.S.
Obama Goes East Saying U.S. Unbowed With Intel’s 67% Asian Sales
11/10/2011
David J. Lynch,
Bloomberg
President Barack Obama will be working to counter a global perception that a rising China is eclipsing a declining U.S. on a nine-day trek of trans-Pacific summitry that begins tomorrow.
“We are losing our place in the world,” said Carla Hills, a former chief U.S. trade negotiator, at a Nov. 4 conference at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington. “Others are overtaking us.”
To regain some of that lost ground, Obama will discuss expanded U.S. ties to the region, including a planned regional partnership on trade and new U.S. military basing arrangements in Australia, according to Deputy Secretary of State William Burns and other officials. The president will host the annual 21-nation Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in Honolulu Nov. 12-13 before visiting Australia and attending an East Asia Summit Nov. 18-19 in Bali, Indonesia.
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Susan Shirk is director of the University of California system-wide Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation and Ho Miu Lam professor of China and Pacific Relations at IR/PS.
She founded in 1993 and continues to lead the Northeast Asia Cooperation Dialogue (NEACD), an unofficial “track-two” forum for discussions of security issues among defense and foreign ministry officials and academics from the United States, Japan, China, Russia, and the Koreas.
