{"id":956,"date":"2010-11-11T16:23:20","date_gmt":"2010-11-11T16:23:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wp3\/?p=956"},"modified":"2010-11-11T16:23:20","modified_gmt":"2010-11-11T16:23:20","slug":"protests-welcome-obama-in-seoul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunnionline.us\/english\/2010\/11\/11\/956\/","title":{"rendered":"Protests welcome Obama in Seoul"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-left: 5px; float: right;\" alt=\"obama-no\" src=\"images\/stories\/news\/obama-no.jpg\" width=\"283\" height=\"201\" \/>US President Barack Obama has arrived in South Korea to attend the G-20 summit in Seoul as activists stage protests against Washington&#8217;s policies around the world.<br \/>Prior to his arrival in Seoul, thousands of South Korean peace activists and civic group members took to the streets to protest Obama&#8217;s visit, saying the US president is not welcome in South Korea.<\/div>\n<p>  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The activists have promised to continue their demonstrations until the summit kicks off on Thursday.<br \/>The protesters are opposing a free trade agreement between Seoul and Washington.<br \/>Disputes over foreign exchange rates and the world&#8217;s unbalanced trade are expected to dominate discussions in the two-day gathering.<br \/>The demonstrators say the deal harms South Korea&#8217;s agriculture and employment.<br \/>Obama is on a ten-day Asian tour to boost US trade relations with the continent. He faced similar protests in India and Indonesia on the first and second leg of his visit respectively.<br \/>Indonesians gathered outside the US Embassy in Jakarta several times to oppose Obama&#8217;s visit, calling on the government to reject the US president.<br \/>Muslim pundits say that the Obama administration&#8217;s conciliatory gestures toward some Muslim countries are a ploy to push ahead with the administration&#8217;s pro-Israeli agenda.<br \/>&#8220;We don&#8217;t see the differences between Obama and Bush, they both oppress Muslims, they both have blood on their hands,&#8221; CNN quoted Ismail Yusanto, a spokesman for a Muslim group in Indonesia, as saying on Sunday.<br \/>Meanwhile, the results of surveys conducted in several Muslim countries show that the Muslim world&#8217;s trust in US policies and President Obama has dropped drastically.<br \/>President Obama faced similar protests in India, where victims of a toxic tragedy in the city of Bhopal held a sit-in, demanding compensation for the fatal incident.<br \/>More than 500,000 people were exposed to toxic gas after 40 tons of deadly chemical leaked at the Indian subsidiary of the US Corporation Union Carbide on December 3, 1984.<br \/>The visit still continues to spark controversy in different parts of India.<br \/>Maoist guerrillas have gone on a rampage of destruction across the state of Bihar to protest the visit.<br \/>The guerrillas have called for a 24-hour shutdown throughout the state to protest Obama&#8217;s visit and the US government&#8217;s &#8220;imperialist policies.&#8221;<br \/>During his visit, Obama said Washington cannot impose a solution on the volatile India-Pakistan relationship especially when it comes to Kashmir.<br \/>The remark sparked anxiety among government officials in Islamabad due to fears that the US president&#8217;s visit could likely upset the delicate balance of power between the two nuclear-armed neighbors.<br \/>Obama is also expected to come under fire by G-20 member-states who object to the US Federal Reserve&#8217;s announced plans to pump USD 600 billion into its economy by the end of June 2011. Experts say the move is an attempt to boost America&#8217;s sluggish economy.<br \/>However, nations from Brazil to Germany have criticized the US policy, saying it will push their currencies higher and make their exports less competitive.<br \/>China has also blasted the US decision to inject hundreds of billions of dollars into the US banking system.<br \/>Chinese Vice Finance Minister Zhu Guangyao recently said Washington is ignoring its responsibility to support emerging economies.<br \/>&#8220;The US has not fully taken into consideration the shock of excessive capital flows to the financial stability of emerging markets,&#8221; Zhu told reporters in Beijing on Monday.<br \/>A report by The Washington Post said on Wednesday that the Federal Reserve&#8217;s move last week to print and pump billions of dollars into the US economy would continue to cloud G-20 debates.<\/p>\n<p><em>Source: Press TV<\/em><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US President Barack Obama has arrived in South Korea to attend the G-20 summit in Seoul as activists stage protests against Washington&#8217;s policies around the world.Prior to his arrival in Seoul, thousands of South Korean peace activists and civic group members took to the streets to protest Obama&#8217;s visit, saying the US president is not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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