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		<title>Hu Jintao&#8217;s State Visit (Radio Interview)</title>
		<link>http://www.asiaruminations.com/2011/01/18/hu-jintaos-state-visit-radio-interview/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Jan 2011 00:52:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel Michaeli</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Media: Colombia National Radio &#8211; &#8220;Coffee and News&#8221; Morning Show (Live).
Subjects: Issues likely to come up in the state visit; human rights; valuation of the Chinese Renminbi and risk of a &#8220;currency war.&#8221;
Length: 8:07.

This was a live interview conducted in English; Spanish interpretation follows each question and answer.


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		<title>Obama in India: Testing a New World Order, Starting with the Security Council</title>
		<link>http://www.asiaruminations.com/2010/11/08/obama-in-india-testing-a-new-world-order-starting-with-the-security-council/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Nov 2010 20:01:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel Michaeli</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Date: 8 November 2010.
Publication: The Huffington Post.
Author: Daniel Michaeli.
The future of American global influence will be decided in Asia, and India&#8217;s success could be a prerequisite for America&#8217;s long-term position in the region. So President Obama just made a substantial step towards securing U.S. interests in Asia by endorsing India&#8217;s aspiration to greater global and regional influence. He declared today in New Delhi, &#8220;I look forward to a reformed U.N. Security Council that includes India as a permanent member.&#8221; Indians have been waiting for this for a long time.
Successive U.S. ...]]></description>
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		<title>Obama Skips Asia (Again)</title>
		<link>http://www.asiaruminations.com/2010/06/05/obama-skips-asia-again/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Jun 2010 15:56:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel Michaeli</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Gulf Oil Spill]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The fact that President Obama canceled yet another trip to Asia (after having canceled his March trip and deciding to skip Indonesia in November) is disappointing. This makes sense from the narrow American political perspective; Obama is afraid the Gulf oil spill could become his &#8220;Hurricane Katrina&#8221; incident, exposing the U.S. government as aloof and unable to respond to crises.
But the message sent to the Asia-Pacific region is not a good one.
Australia, like the United States, is a &#8220;Pacific&#8221; but not an &#8220;Asian&#8221; power. While Japan has jumped at opportunities ...]]></description>
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		<title>Complications for the U.S. and China (Radio Interview)</title>
		<link>http://www.asiaruminations.com/2010/02/03/complications-for-the-u-s-and-china-radio-interview/</link>
		<comments>http://www.asiaruminations.com/2010/02/03/complications-for-the-u-s-and-china-radio-interview/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 23:10:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel Michaeli</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Media: Colombia National Radio &#8211; &#8220;Coffee and News&#8221; Morning Show (Live).
Subjects: Sources of U.S.-China disagreement, particularly the arms sale to Taiwan and President Obama&#8217;s expected April 2010 meeting with the Dalai Lama.
Length: 9:13.

This was a live interview conducted in English; Spanish interpretation follows each question and answer.


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		<title>Free Trade = American Jobs</title>
		<link>http://www.asiaruminations.com/2010/01/28/free-trade-american-jobs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jan 2010 19:44:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel Michaeli</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ 
The 0verall success or failure of President Obama&#8217;s State of the Union address last night won&#8217;t be known for some time. Dan Balz of the Washington Post reports that the real issue coming out of the speech is whether Congressional Democrats and Republicans will or won&#8217;t change their behavior in the coming months.
But an aspect of the speech that certainly deserves praise was the president&#8217;s focus on American competitiveness, including comparisons to China, Germany, and India. It was unusually honest for a president to acknowledge that the U.S. could ...]]></description>
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		<title>Copenhagen: &#8220;China Won&#8221;?</title>
		<link>http://www.asiaruminations.com/2009/12/21/copenhagen-china-won/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Dec 2009 22:47:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel Michaeli</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[British Prime Minister Gordon Brown is expected to say in a podcast that a deal at Copenhagen was &#8220;held to ransom by a handful of countries.&#8221; His climate secretary wrote, more specifically, that it was China that had &#8220;vetoed&#8221; crucial proposals the entire developed world and most of the developing world stood behind.
The Financial Times reports seeing &#8220;a more assertive China&#8221; at the summit. And at least one paper&#8217;s conclusion from Copenhagen is: &#8220;China won, the world lost.&#8221;
But did China really win? It kept the Kyoto agreement intact and avoided ...]]></description>
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		<title>Looking Back at Singh&#8217;s Visit to Washington</title>
		<link>http://www.asiaruminations.com/2009/12/14/looking-back-at-singhs-visit-to-washington/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Dec 2009 14:36:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel Michaeli</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I listened to Prime Minister Singh&#8217;s speech at the Council on Foreign Relations during his visit to Washington, I was struck by how well Singh seemed to understand his audience. In spite of major differences in American and Indian approaches to global issues from climate to nonproliferation/arms control to human rights, Singh spoke of common values&#8211;an approach that speaks to the way Americans of all political stripes think about the world.
But even as Singh and Obama spoke of shared interests and shared values, there is something lacking in Washington&#8217;s ...]]></description>
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		<title>The U.S.-China Relationship (Radio Interview)</title>
		<link>http://www.asiaruminations.com/2009/11/17/radio-interview-icelandic-national-broadcasting-service/</link>
		<comments>http://www.asiaruminations.com/2009/11/17/radio-interview-icelandic-national-broadcasting-service/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 11:44:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel Michaeli</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Media: Icelandic National Broadcasting Service &#8211; Radio 1 &#8220;Spegillinn.&#8221;
Subjects: President Obama&#8217;s trip to Shanghai and Beijing, and the U.S.-China relationship.
Length: 5:42.
This is the radio segment in which I was interviewed on President Obama&#8217;s trip to China in November 2009. The audio is in Icelandic except for my answers to interview questions.

Note: If you have trouble with the embedded MP3 file above, you can open or download the interview directly here.
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		<title>No Need to Be Obsequious in Beijing&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.asiaruminations.com/2009/11/16/no-need-to-be-obsequious-in-beijing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 00:10:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel Michaeli</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A good reality check today from Steve Dunaway on the true balance of leverage between China and the United States.
The popular narrative in the United States is that President Obama has little leverage in Beijing to push President Hu in areas like its currency peg, Iran and North Korea, or even human rights. But the real story is more complicated, as always.
Can China, as &#8220;banker&#8221; to the United States, threaten the U.S. with withdrawing support for the U.S. national debt? Chinese officials recently have been busy criticizing U.S. economic policies: ...]]></description>
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		<title>President Obama&#8217;s Visit to China (Television Interview)</title>
		<link>http://www.asiaruminations.com/2009/11/16/evening-news-television-interview/</link>
		<comments>http://www.asiaruminations.com/2009/11/16/evening-news-television-interview/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 23:03:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel Michaeli</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Media: Icelandic National Broadcasting Service &#8211; Evening News.
Subjects: President Obama&#8217;s trip to China, and the U.S.-China relationship.
Length: 1:45.

This is the evening news segment in which I was interviewed on President Obama&#8217;s trip to China in November 2009. The audio is in Icelandic except for my answers to interview questions.

Note: Mac users may need Flip4Mac WMV Player installed in order to view Windows Media Video files. Download the free version on Microsoft&#8217;s WMV web page, here.
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