Web Search powered by YAHOO! SEARCH
02.21.2009 10:31 am

Clinton focuses on climate change, not human rights, in China

Hillary Clinton meets Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao. | Getty Images

Hillary Clinton meets Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao. | Getty Images

Secretary of State Hilary Clinton is in China, talking about the environment and other issues, but not talking much about human rights, a different tone from when she was first…

  • Comments (8)
  • Email this
11.14.2008 3:26 pm

Open thread: Hillary Clinton for Secretary of State?

Hillary Clinton

Hillary Clinton

Sources say President-elect Barack Obama asked Sen. Hillary Clinton to be his secretary of state. The job offer probably has her calculating the benefits to her of accepting such a position. Among those benefits probably is an offer from Obama to help…

  • Comments (16)
  • Email this
06.12.2008 5:42 pm

Blogging the Khalilzad conference call

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Zalmay KhalilzadAt 3:00PM this afternoon I participated in an editorial conference call with U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Zalmay Khalilzad (former ambassador to Afghanistan and later Iraq). During the call, Ambassador Khalilzad addressed a broad range of topics, including repression in…

  • Comments (3)
  • Email this