HO CHI MINH CITY – U.S. President Barack Obama and his team are “moving smartly” to set policy toward Asia, said former U.S. Deputy Secretary of State John Negroponte in an exclusive interview with the Far Eastern Economic Review.
“I certainly am positive about the foreign policy of the new administration,” said Mr. Negroponte on the sidelines of a conference last week in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. The positive moves, Mr. Negroponte said, included the appointment of special envoys to address “critical questions” such as the Middle East, Afghanistan and Pakistan, Secretary of State Hilary Clinton’s visit to Northeast Asia, and the transition on China issues, which were “well managed” and “smooth.”
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