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LittleBlue

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3. China's loving this. Obama's "pivot to Asia" has crashed and burned

Reply to yortsed snacilbuper (Original post)

Wed Sep 17, 2014, 01:12 PM

Sep 2014

China was getting heat for the South China Sea oil conflict. We were pivoting to Asia away from the Middle East, or so we were told.

Since then Syria had a civil war, ISIS has appeared, and Crimea was annexed by Russia. How naive to think we can move on and deal with China when we haven't put out the fires that we started elsewhere!

Nope. There have been articles for months that the so-called pivot never really happened. Probably decaying deep in the bowels of a forgotten think tank.

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The president should focus on China, India, Russia, Germany � not Iraq, Syria, Ukraine! [View all] yortsed snacilbuper Sep 2014 OP

He can pay attention to all of it. He hasn't taken his eye off China, and TwilightGardener Sep 2014 #1

Yes, it's quite the high wire to walk Wash. state Desk Jet Sep 2014 #2

China's loving this. Obama's "pivot to Asia" has crashed and burned LittleBlue Sep 2014 #3