WASHINGTON, d.c.: President Barack Obama scrapped trips to two key Asian summits on Thursday (Friday in Manila), blaming the United Sstates (US) government shutdown for the cancellation of a tour designed to advance a central prong of his foreign policy.
After days of speculation that the trip was in jeopardy following the shutdown crisis, a White House statement on Thursday confirmed Obama would miss the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (Apec) summit in Bali and the East Asia summit in Brunei next week.
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