Hu Jintao opened two days of talks between U.S. and China by repeating a pledge to continue reform of his country's exchange-rate regime.
Both sides of Thailand's political divide are cranking up their spin machines as they race to rewrite the history of last week's bloody riots in Bangkok and the tensions that drove the violence.
Clinton said the U.S. could intensify its military posture toward North Korea in response to Pyongyang's alleged role in sinking a South Korean ship.
