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Senior US senators launch week-long China trip Hong Kong (AFP) April 18, 2011 Top US Senator Harry Reid and nine fellow lawmakers arrived in Hong Kong Monday to open a week-long visit to China focused on economic issues and human rights, his office said in a statement. "During meetings with Chinese officials, the group will discuss issues including clean energy, trade issues, currency, foreign policy, and human rights," according to the statement. Reid, the Democratic senate majority leader, and the other lawmakers was to make site visits of US investments and clean energy projects in Chengdu, Beijing and Xian, his office said. The delegation included Democratic Senators Dick Durbin, Barbara Boxer, Chuck Schumer, Frank Lautenberg, Jeff Merkley and Michael Bennet as well as Republicans Richard Shelby, Mike Enzi, and Johnny Isakson.
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Weakened America a 'laughingstock,' Trump laments New York (AFP) April 17, 2011 Billionaire businessman Donald Trump, who is flirting with a White House run, lamented Sunday that the United States had become a "laughingstock" too timid to wield its power assertively on the world stage. "We have such power if we knew how to use it," Trump told CNN television in an interview. He said that by failing to move more decisively in its foreign policy, "this country is a lau ... read more |
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