Visiting Beijing for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) meeting just days after his party suffered huge losses in the midterm elections, President Obama appears to be playing into the stereotype that domestically beleaguered U.S. presidents focus on foreign policy in the final years of their term. Such a turn is a trickier proposition for Obama, given the multitude of crises he faces abroad, from Ukraine to the Islamic State and Iran.If there is one area where he can reasonably claim more general success, however, it is Asia, which appears markedly peaceful in comparison with the rest of Eurasia. Here, too, …read more
Source: American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research