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The State Department had also been reaching out to Chinese bloggers in anticipation of Monday's event. On Nov. 12, the U.S. embassy in Beijing invited a dozen prominent bloggers to a briefing on American policy toward China, both in person and via live Web feeds to the U.S. consulates...
American officials had been holding out hope that the Chinese would allow for live nationwide broadcast of the President's town hall with Chinese youth on Monday in Shanghai. But even as Obama got ready to board his flight to Shanghai on Sunday, U.S. diplomats were still negotiating the terms...
At the same time, White House officials had been preparing alternate means of broadcasting the town hall online. The event, which took place Monday at 12:45 p.m. local time, was shown live over Whitehouse.gov, and Obama took a number of questions from an online Chinese audience. But it was...
Online outreach by the Obama Administration is designed in part to bypass such censorship, and increase direct communications with the Chinese people. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, for one, has been particularly aggressive on the issue since taking office. During her first trip to Asia, she participated in a webchat...
The Afghan National Army (ANA) comprises some 94,000 troops, although even by the official numbers, only half of those are combat-ready. The reality of the recent U.S. and British operations in Helmand province, however, suggests that a lot fewer may be capable of being deployed to fight effectively...