Wounded Bush meets rising China at APEC summit

[steve2470]

http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=politicsNews&storyID=2006-11-13T000946Z_01_SP131445_RTRUKOC_0_US-APEC.xml&WTmodLoc=NewsHome-C3-politicsNews-2

HANOI (Reuters) - President George W. Bush will seek to revive his wounded presidency by breathing new life into stalled global trade talks and North Korea diplomacy at an Asia-Pacific summit that also marks Vietnam's coming-out party.

Bush's approval ratings have slid to a fresh low following the Democrat Party's victory in last week's congressional elections, raising questions about how much he can do in the remaining two years of his term.

The elections came the same week China announced that its foreign exchange reserves -- mostly held in the form of U.S. debt -- had crossed the $1 trillion mark.



Fresh off summits it hosted the past month with African and Southeast Asian leaders, China is showing the Pacific rim that power as well as money is flowing its way.

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[Rainscents]

1. No one is going to listen to him now. He lost all his power on Nove 7th!

[badgerpup]

2. I shudder to think what his next demonstration of frat boy behavior...

...is going to look like.:blush:

Any bets on whether he DOESN'T pull one of his trademark huge faux pas on this trip?
It would be a first, wouldn't it...

[Greeby]

3. Bush? "Wounded"? Vietnam?

Ummm :think: