Asian nations piqued about US snub of forum

[dArKeR]

When Asia holds its key annual security meeting on perils ranging from rights abuses to nuclear bombs, the top US diplomat will snub the meeting for the first time in over 20 years but Australia will likely embrace a friendship treaty with its Asian neighbors.
The gathering next week of two dozen countries at the ASEAN Regional Forum in Laos will coincide with the first progress in over a year in the region's most irritating threat: North Korea's nuclear weapons program.

Six of the nations also meet next week in Beijing for talks aimed at getting the North to disarm.

News that US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will skip the Laos ministers' forum and send a deputy prompted wide-ranging speculation: that Washington is uneasy with China's growing military strength, angry over Myanmar's human rights record, or has priorities elsewhere. Rice simply cited a scheduling conflict.

http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/world/archives/2005/07/23/2003264671

[Oversea Visitor]

1. It is ok

We go visit big brother in China hey.

[SpiralHawk]

5. Come, Condi, we go eat Poo Poo Platter and discuss

the disgrace and dissolution of the American Empire under The Madness of King George

[aquart]

2. Can I publicly disavow this administration?

THEY DO NOT SPEAK FOR ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[wli]

3. me neither

[WhiteTara]

4. kick

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