President Barack Obama is getting his first glimpse of life as a lame-duck president traveling overseas. Obama arrived in Asia weakened by a cascade of crises that have put him on the defensive for much of this year, and politically damaged by Democrats’ thrashing in last week’s midterm elections. But during stops in China and Myanmar, there were few overt signs that Obama’s troubles at home had followed him abroad. Instead, Obama secured unexpected agreements with China on climate change, military cooperation and trade. And in Myanmar on Friday, Obama received a full-throated endorsement of his commitment to the country’s democratization from revered opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi and was enthusiastically greeted by young people at a town hall in the bustling commercial capital of Yangon.
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