The top East Asia specialist at the State Department has still not been confirmed, though that has more to do with the Senate's sloth.

国务院负责东亚事务的最高官员仍未确定，不过这更多的是由于参议院的怠惰。

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Did you know what Japan is the leading industrial state of Eastern Asia?

你是否知道日本是东亚地区工业领先的国家？

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An increasingly powerful China will seek to become the most powerful state in Asia and dominate that region the way the United States dominates the Western Hemisphere.

一个日益强大的中国会寻求成为亚洲最强的国家，并象美国主宰西半球那样主宰该地区。

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Secretary of State Clinton, in Seoul earlier this week at the end of a trip to Asia, said the world has a duty to act over the sinking.

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Artists from various countries have arrived in the Queensland state capital,Brisbane, for the Sixth Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art.

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Secretary of State Hillary Clinton outlined U.S.help to Haiti from Hawaii where she is attending an Asia-Pacific conference.

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That is what it will try to prove to the heads of state from Asia and the Pacific at its largest international meeting ever.

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Governor Mitch Daniels, who addressed the opening dinner of the summit, makes trips to Asia to promote his state, annually to Japan, and this year, for the first time, to China.

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Senior officials travelling with Mr Kerry said that the exchange with those leaders would not be burdened by perceptions of American decline, unlike during Hillary Clinton's maiden voyage to Asia as secretary of state in February 2009, in the midst of financial crisis.

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