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Obama vows to deepen US engagement in Asia

TOKYO: Billing himself America's first "Pacific president", Barack Obama Saturday said the United States did not seek to "contain" China and promised a full US role in charting Asia's future. ...full story at Channel NewsAsia

from Channel NewsAsia on Sat, Nov 14 2009

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