In November 2011, President Barack Obama travelled to the APEC Summit in Honolulu, then visited Australia, and finally the Asian Economic Summit in Bali. Declaring that “the United States is a Pacific nation”, the President told audiences that he planned to repoint US foreign policy in the direction of the Asia Pacific.
Simon filed several reports for pan-Asian network Channel News Asia on the President’s trip, including this one which aired on November 15, 2011, on the eve of the President’s speech to Australia’s House of Representatives.
And here, you can listen to Simon’s preview of the President’s trip to the APEC summit in Honolulu, as broadcast on Radio New Zealand’s drive-time program “Checkpoint”:
