Obama Turns To Foreign Policy With Asia Trip

President Barack Obama is heading to Southeast Asia today to showcase a foreign policy achievement in Myanmar and reinforce the U.S. role as a counterweight to China in the region.

 

 

 

 

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama is heading to Southeast Asia today to showcase a foreign policy achievement in Myanmar and reinforce the U.S. role as a counterweight to China in the region.

The four-day trip will provide a brief break from dicey fiscal negotiations with Congress and a sex scandal in Washington involving the former CIA director.

In his first trip abroad since the summer heat of the re-election campaign, Obama will become the first U.S. president to visit Myanmar, an appreciation for its steps toward democratization, as well as Cambodia.

The four-day trip that begins Saturday will be the president's fourth to Asia.

(KFGO News file photo)

 

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