<B>Obama withdrawal puts China's Xi Jinping in APEC box seat</B> By Geoff Hiscock, Special to CNN updated 7:56 PM EDT, Mon October 7, 2013 (CNN) -- Courtesy of the U.S. government shutdown, Chinese President Xi Jinping finds himself in the box seat at his first Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum as leader of the world's second largest economy. Usually the United States makes the running at the annual APEC get-together of China, the U.S., Russia, Japan and 17 other Asia-Pacific economies that between them account for half the world's output, 45% of its trade and 3 billion of its inhabitants. But U.S. President Barack Obama's decision to pull out of the APEC forum and leaders' retreat in Bali, Indonesia this week because of a domestic political brawl leaves Xi and Russian President Vladimir Putin as the two most powerful men in attendance. Obama was scheduled to speak Monday, the last day of the APEC forum before the leaders' retreat on Tuesday, on a theme that now seems particularly pertinent -- "America's leadership and priorities: What they mean for the world." Xi is now APEC's final speaker and will deliver a keynote address entitled "China in transition: What can the Asia Pacific expect?" China's economy may have slowed a little in 2013 and its structural employment, environmental and social issues present big challenges ahead, but it remains very much the regional engine of growth and its Asian neighbors know their prosperity is intimately linked to what happens in China. http://www.cnn.com/2013/10/06/world/asia/apec-obama-xi-putin/index.html Obama handed the reins over to China and said," here you take charge while i go play golf."
Of course. Odumbo doesn't CARE about America, in fact HE HATES US. As an Islamic Terrorist, he wants to do as much harm as possible without being called out on what he's doing.
STUPID FUCK RICTER... doesn't realize the Tea Party and its support of Constitutional principles... are the ONLY remaining hopes for a free and democratic America! (Ricter is a stupid-ass, brain-dead, Leftist, Communist, shill/troll. Why do you guys continue to indulge him??)