Obama Welcomes Chi-Coms Rise

Obama: US will not ‘contain’ China

BBC
Barack Obama says the US “does not seek to contain” China’s rise as a big player on the world stage.

“The rise of a strong, prosperous China can be a source of strength for the community of nations,” Mr Obama said in a speech in Japan’s capital, Tokyo.

Better US ties with Beijing do not mean a weakening of relations with US allies in the region, he said.
Describing himself as the first “Pacific” US president, he said the US was committed to the area’s security.
Mr Obama is now in Singapore, where he is to attend an Asia-Pacific economic summit.
His trade representative Ron Kirk, who is already at the Apec meeting, says the US wants barriers to trade and investment removed to promote an open global trade system.
Mr Obama will round off his week-long Asian tour with stops in China and South Korea.
North Korea talks
Mr Obama told the gathering in Tokyo that Washington’s commitment to the region’s security was “unshakeable”, despite its commitments in Iraq and Afghanistan. He said the US would pursue “pragmatic co-operation” with Beijing on issues of mutual concern.
He also warned that he would not waver from raising human rights concerns with Beijing, but did not mention specific concerns, such as Tibet.
The US president called for more assistance from China to thwart the ambitions of North Korea, and warned there would be tough, unified action by the US and its Asian partners if Pyongyang failed to abandon its nuclear weapons programme.

Mr Obama again called on North Korea to return to six-party talks on the issue, adding the US would not be “cowed” by Pyongyang’s nuclear threats.

He also called on Asian leaders to pursue balanced economic growth.
‘Sustained growth’

On the issue of economic co-operation, Mr Obama challenged Asian countries to break their dependence on exports to the US and to pursue “balanced” and sustainable economic growth.

“We must strengthen our economic recovery, and pursue growth that is both balanced and sustained,” he said. “We simply cannot return to the same cycles of boom and bust that led us into a global recession.”

He said the US would pursue a new economic strategy that would mean “saving more and spending less”.

He urged Asian leaders to break their dependence on exports to the US market and to open up their markets to speed up a global economic recovery.

Mr Obama arrived in Tokyo on Friday and met Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama.
The two leaders agreed on the need to renew their countries’ strained alliance and pledged to work quickly to resolve a dispute over the US military base in Okinawa.

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China is rounding up political dissidents ahead of President Obama’s trip to the communist nation this week.
Breitbart
China has detained several dissidents and campaigners ahead of US President Barack Obama’s much-anticipated first visit to the country, their relatives and close contacts told AFP Saturday.
Obama arrives in Shanghai on Sunday and moves onto Beijing the next day for a four-day maiden presidential trip during which he has been urged to raise human rights with the Asian giant’s top leadership.
But as the visit drew close, the head of an activist group for parents whose children were sickened by tainted milk in China had been detained, his wife told AFP.
” “Zhao Lianhai was criminally detained for ‘provoking an incident’,” Li Xuemei said in a text, without giving further details.
According to activist group Human Rights in China, Zhao was handcuffed and taken away late Friday night by police officers who searched his house and took away computers, a video recorder, a camera and an address book. i was criminally detained for ‘provoking an incident’,” Li Xuemei said in a text, without giving further details.
According to activist group Human Rights in China, Zhao was handcuffed and taken away late Friday night by police officers who searched his house and took away computers, a video recorder, a camera and an address book.

Wild Thing’s comment…….
Obama is welcoming anything and everything that weakens or threatens our country. He loves communist and dictator countries.
So much for our friendship with Taiwan.
America can no longer “contain” China’s rise to economic prominence. China owns hundreds and hundreds of billions of US $$. In effect, we’ve sold a great deal of ourselves to the Chi-coms.
Until this tide is reversed….until we buy back our own debt….until we begin to manufacture the items we require here in the US….we face death by drowning. And the water is up to our necks now.