Obama Comes Up Empty in Asia

Obama Comes Up Empty in Asia

President Obama’s failure during his three-day visit to Japan to tie down elements of a trade deal that many see as a crucial underpinning of his strategic “pivot to Asia” will feed perceptions that the US president’s foreign policy touch is deserting him. The simultaneous collapse of the Israeli-Palestinian talks in which he had invested no small hope, and Vladimir Putin’s daily blatant contempt for toothless US pronouncements on Ukraine, also contribute to a sense of US powerlessness and even drift.

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