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July 25, 2005

Australian Columnist: Ignoring Asia 'Unforgivable'

Columnist Greg Sheridan of The Australian thinks, "The Bush administration has delivered a serious diplomatic snub to Southeast Asia, with Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice refusing to attend the ASEAN Regional Forum and related meetings in Laos this week."

"Instead," he said in a July 26, 2005 column, "she will send her deputy, Bob Zoellick. Rice's inexplicable and gauche decision is a serious setback to U.S. diplomacy in the region, at a time of heightened Chinese diplomatic activism in Southeast Asia," Mr. Sheridan wrote.

See "Ignoring Asia 'unforgivable'" for more of his analysis.

Posted by Munir Umrani at July 25, 2005 11:02 PM

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