Reuters – Myanmar vowed on Saturday to address concerns raised by President Barack Obama, outlining far-reaching plans to make peace with ethnic rebels, gradually release all political prisoners and relax controls on freedom of expression.
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Reuters – China pushed back on Saturday against a week of U.S. pressure to resolve a rancorous dispute over territorial claims in the South China Sea, a crucial, mineral-rich commercial shipping lane at the heart of growing tensions among Asian leaders.
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Berkeley Political Scientist Robert Scalapino has died. An obituary is at New York Times , ” Robert A. Scalapino, a Scholar of Asian Politics, Dies at 92 “: Robert A. Scalapino, an eminent scholar of Asian politics who achieved prominence during the Vietnam War for his strong defense of American policy as opposition to it was growing, died Nov. 1 in Oakland, Calif. He was 92. The cause was complications of a respiratory infection, the University of California, Berkeley, said. Professor Scalapino taught there from 1949 to 1990 and founded its Institute of East Asian Studies in 1978. The author of 39 books on Vietnam, China, Korea, Japan and Taiwan, Professor Scalapino was also editor of Asian Survey, a scholarly publication, from 1962 to 1996 and advised the State Department and other government agencies. In 1965, he wound up arguing the Johnson administration’s case for escalating the war at what was billed as a national teach-in on Vietnam policy. The event was a debate by a panel before an audience of 5,000 in Washington and more than 100,000 people at more than 100 campuses who had gathered to hear the debate by radio hookups. McGeorge Bundy, the national security adviser to President Lyndon B. Johnson, had been scheduled to attend, and many participants had hoped to hear his pro-war views and confront him. When he canceled at the last minute, it fell to Professor Scalapino, who had also been invited to join the panel, to take the lead in defending the White House’s policy. He argued that the United States was fighting communism, not Asian nationalism, and that China would regard the United States as a “paper tiger” if it abandoned the war. He continued to make that argument the following year in a long article in The New York Times Magazine. He wrote that the war tested “the American capacity to respond to a threat that is important but not terminal. RTWT.
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Robert Scalapino, 1919-2011
Berkeley Political Scientist Robert Scalapino has died. An obituary is at New York Times , ” Robert A. Scalapino, a Scholar of Asian Politics, Dies at 92 “: Robert A. Scalapino, an eminent scholar of Asian politics who achieved prominence during the Vietnam War for his strong defense of American policy as opposition to it was growing, died Nov. 1 in Oakland, Calif. He was 92. The cause was complications of a respiratory infection, the University of California, Berkeley, said. Professor Scalapino taught there from 1949 to 1990 and founded its Institute of East Asian Studies in 1978. The author of 39 books on Vietnam, China, Korea, Japan and Taiwan, Professor Scalapino was also editor of Asian Survey, a scholarly publication, from 1962 to 1996 and advised the State Department and other government agencies. In 1965, he wound up arguing the Johnson administration’s case for escalating the war at what was billed as a national teach-in on Vietnam policy. The event was a debate by a panel before an audience of 5,000 in Washington and more than 100,000 people at more than 100 campuses who had gathered to hear the debate by radio hookups. McGeorge Bundy, the national security adviser to President Lyndon B. Johnson, had been scheduled to attend, and many participants had hoped to hear his pro-war views and confront him. When he canceled at the last minute, it fell to Professor Scalapino, who had also been invited to join the panel, to take the lead in defending the White House’s policy. He argued that the United States was fighting communism, not Asian nationalism, and that China would regard the United States as a “paper tiger” if it abandoned the war. He continued to make that argument the following year in a long article in The New York Times Magazine. He wrote that the war tested “the American capacity to respond to a threat that is important but not terminal. RTWT.
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Robert Scalapino, 1919-2011
Reuters – Canada is toughening its tone on the Keystone XL pipeline, warning the Obama administration that rejection of TransCanada Corp’s $7 billion project could prompt Ottawa to concentrate on selling its oil-sands-derived crude to Asian customers instead.
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Canada toughens tone on Keystone approval
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Our Asian ally hasn’t even bothered to ask for the President’s help in upgrading its F-16 fighter fleet. And that silence says it all.
Reuters – Secretary of State Hillary Clinton sought to reassure Asian investors over U.S. debt worries Monday, saying she was confident President Obama would ultimately reach a deal with congressional leaders to prevent a catastrophic default.
AFP – US President Barack Obama is this year expected to be one of millions of visitors to Indonesia’s resort island of Bali, raising hopes of a tourism windfall by reassuring potential travellers.
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