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.
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.
Mr Kerry is making his first trip to Asia since becoming secretary of state.
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It is noticeable that political stability in South East Asia's best governed state, Singapore, is not in question.
Mr Karimov, who has led Central Asia's most populous state since before independence from the Soviet Union in 1991, decided that, in the interests of democracy, he needed an opponent.
Upon Mr Clinton's departure, the American assistant secretary of state for South Asia, Karl Inderfurth, flew back to Delhi, ostensibly to apprise the Indians of the results of the meeting.
U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for South Asia Robin Raphel characterizes the talks as "too slow, " but won't describe the people in the camps as "Bhutanese refugees, " saying this is the very point being negotiated.
Scot Marciel, deputy assistant secretary of state for East Asia, said Washington would maintain economic and political sanctions against Myanmar, formerly known as Burma, but that the purpose of the trip was to explore more positive ways to reform the isolated Southeast Asian nation.
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The big New York financial houses don't seem to care, say critics, as long as the money rolls in -- and the Asia growth funds that hold Chinese state firms are among the higher performers in the market.
When, in 1919, Ataturk set out to turn Asia Minor into a modern nation state, he was opposed not only by the Allied armies which had occupied important bits of it, but also by the imperial government that employed him.
State-run firms from Asia's thirsty giants, India and China, have no such qualms.
Clinton became the first U.S. secretary of state to attend the East Asia Summit, a gathering of 10 Southeast Asian nations and other regional powers, such as China, South Korea and Japan.
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Clinton, who returned from Asia on Sunday after her first overseas trip as secretary of state, called North Korea's nuclear program "the most acute challenge to stability in northeast Asia" and has said there is a "testing period" at present about how diplomacy can move forward.
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is off to Asia tomorrow to solicit more cooperation in enforcement.
Only three rank among the 100 biggest in Asia outside Japan, and the largest, State Bank of India, ranks a lowly 25th.
The disclosure came as John Kerry arrives Friday in Asia for his first tour as secretary of state through a region more on edge than it has been in years.
The industry is in sharper focus in Asia, where airlines remain a symbol of the state.
"We are in a vicious cycle, " said Evans Revere, a former senior State Department official who now works on Asia issues at the Brookings Institution.
It mostly worked in Latin America, where the state was the profligate borrower, but ravaged Asia's debt-ridden private sector.
Malaysia and Singapore have wanted Indonesia to arrest Abu Bakar Bashir, a Muslim cleric who leads Jemaah Islamiyah, an militant group which wants to create an Islamic state through a swathe of South-East Asia.
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has been busying herself in East Asia.
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President Obama began to stress America's 'strategic shift' towards Asia late last year, and he reiterated it in his State of the Union address.
Formerly Singapore's prime minister and now its senior minister (and, by some accounts, still its chief strategist), Lee has toe-ended the city-state to a position of unchallenged prosperity in Southeast Asia.
The US Secretary of State, John Kerry, will be heading to Asia next week for his first trip to the region in the new job - with stops in Beijing, Tokyo and Seoul.
Wednesday the State Department announced that next week Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will be making a weeklong visit to Asia.
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As many of you know, Secretary Clinton became the first Secretary of State since Dean Rusk, in 1961, to go to Asia on an inaugural trip.
But the committee's chairman, Fred Thompson (R-Tenn.), is complaining that State Department inaction has forced the postponement of a trip to Asia by investigators looking into the possibly illegal or improper donations.
As part out coverage on innovation and entrepreneurship in Asia this week, the BBC's Shilpa Kannan travelled to the state of Haryana to visit a farmer who has benefited from the NIF's efforts.
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