NEW YORK – Now that Barack Obama has made history by being elected President of the United States, people throughout the Asia-Pacific region fervently hope he will focus on Asia in a way that he did not during the election season. In the past few months, every time I visited an Asian country – whether South Korea or India, China or Japan – I was asked repeatedly about candidate Obama’s positions on three issues: trade, foreign policy, and the new geo-economic order.
纽约&#45;&#45;如今，奥巴马当选美国总统创造了历史。整个亚太地区的人民都热切希望他将会与竞选时不同地关注亚洲。在过去几个月时间里每次我访问亚洲国家，无论是南韩或是印度，中国或是日本，人们总是不断地问我候选人奥巴马在贸易、外交以及新型地缘经济秩序等三个问题上的立场。我们现在都希望当选总统奥巴马将会不仅在言辞上、而且在行动上提供答案。