After APEC in Beijing, Barack Obama participates in regional summit of the Association of Southeast Asia Nations, Burma this year. The US president has always wanted its relations with these countries a priority, a pivot its foreign policy to offset some Chinese superpower. He sees opportunities in an economy struggling to recover from the crisis.
"Over the past six years, we have expanded and improved our partnership, but I think we all agree to do more. That is why the United States is committed to strengthening ASEAN as an institution and as a community linked by common interests and values nations. "
The ASEAN encompasses 10 countries (Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, Philippines, Brunei, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia and Burma) and 600 million people. It was the second meeting of the US President with his Burmese counterpart Thein Sein since the country emerged from a half-century of military junta and its diplomatic isolation in 2011. Obama is expected to meet the opponent and Nobel Peace Prize Aung San Suu Kyi in Rangoon tomorrow.
Aung San Suu Kyi called last week the United States to be more vigilant, saying that Washington seemed "too optimistic" about the reforms.
Many issues ignite the country: the rise of a radical Buddhism, imprisonment of journalists, the failure of peace with rebel ethnic minorities or the drama of the Muslim Rohingya minority, considered one of the most persecuted the world by the United Nations.
On the sidelines of the meeting of ASEAN, Obama met with Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, who explained that it was necessary to abandon economic sanctions against Russia and normalize US-Russian relations.
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