SEOUL – China does not back efforts by Washington and Seoul to punish North Korea at the United Nations for its uranium enrichment programme and wants six-party talks to deal with the issue, a top South Korean envoy said on Saturday. International disagreement over how to deal with the North’s…
WASHINGTON – US President Barack Obama expressed his determination Saturday to “unlock the productivity” of American workers to make the country more competitive in a technology-driven economy. “I know we can out-compete any other nation on Earth,” Obama said in his weekly radio address. “We just have to make sure…
WASHINGTON — US President Barack Obama said Wednesday a visit by his Chinese counterpart Hu Jintao would lay the basis for future ties, saying the two nations had an “enormous stake” in each other’s success. “With this visit we can lay the foundation for the next 30 years,” Obama said…