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November 25, 2012

Importance of Obama's Asian Pivot

Nayan Chanda, Times of India

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The enduring impact of American democracy's soft power was visible in Rangoon with tens of thousands of ecstatic Burmese greeting Obama. A carefully balanced policy that reasserts US interest in the region without forcing the people there into a choice of "with us or against us" will, in the long run, create a balance that would have been impossible had Washington turned its back on Asia.

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TAGGED: China, Asia, United States, India, Barack Obama

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