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What is Uncle Sam’s Asia-Pacific strategy?

May 10, 2012 | Featured, Opinion, PerryScope

U.S. President Barack Obama and Prime Minister Julia Gillard of Australia after a joint news conference in Canberra in November 2011. (Photo credit: Charles Dharapak/Associated Press)

PerryScope By Perry Diaz In an unexpected – but not surprising — turn of events in the Scarborough Shoal territorial dispute between the Philippines and China, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton at a press conference last April 30 in Washington DC announced that the United States is maintaining a “neutral stand” in their dispute.  However, in an attempt to downplay the effect of the Read More …