Video: Secretary Clinton Provides Remarks on ASEAN

Hillary Clinton's AsiaTravel Plans **Updated**

Well we now have official word from P.J. Crowley in today's press briefing.

Philip J. Crowley
Assistant Secretary
Daily Press Briefing
Washington, DC
May 18, 2010

Secretary of State Clinton will travel to Japan, China, and Korea, departing Washington, D.C., on May 20^th. She will visit Tokyo on May 21^st; Shanghai on May 21^st and 22^nd; Beijing, May 23^rd through May 26^th; and will conclude her travel in Seoul also on May 26^th.
In Tokyo, she will discuss regional and global issues with our Japanese ally.
In Shanghai, she will visit the 2010 Shanghai Expo and attend a dinner in honor of the U.S. Pavilion sponsors. She’ll participate in a commercial diplomacy event to highlight the importance of U.S. market access and job creation.
In Beijing, she will join Secretary of Treasury Tim Geithner and over a dozen U.S. cabinet members and agency heads as part of the U.S. delegation to the second joint meeting of the U.S.-China Strategic and Economic Dialogue together with her respective co-chairs State Councilor Dai and Vice Premier Wang.
On May 25, she will participate in an event to celebrate people-to-people engagement with State Councilor Liu. And on May 26th, she finishes in the Republic of Korea, where she will meet with senior government officials to discuss regional stability and other issues. And tomorrow morning at 11:45, we’ll have a trip briefing here at State featuring Kurt Campbell and Dave Loevinger from the Department of Treasury.

Why Hillary wins!

These photos from yesterday in Thailand illustrate better than any words can the advantage Hillary Rodham Clinton has on the world stage. She is female among all those men. More than that she is extremely attractive and charming. When a woman this beautiful decides to turn on the sex appeal, she wins, the men win, everybody wins. So let's go back a minute and revisit Obama's reasons for nominating her: her brilliant intellect, her energy, her work ethic - all of those. We can all agree that she is exceptional in all of those respects. But no one has mentioned (so I will) that she wins the day on every trip (and every bilateral at home) because she is also gorgeous, hot, and sexy. Men fall right into those blue eyes. She makes long, meaningful eye contact and pulls them in like a siren.

Now you may think it is sexist of me to say this. I don't think it is, and I don't particularly care if you do think so since I know it is not. Since Hillary's Village went down, I feel a strange sense of freedom, much as I miss my friends. I got tired of being told that I should concentrate on Hillary's accomplishments rather than her pantsuits, beautiful face, pretty figure, and always surprising hair. It's all a package, girls! I always have emphasized her abilities, resumé, and accomplishments.

She made a huge leap forward in Asia this week. You have to be blind not to see that her brand of smart diplomacy is leveraged as much by sex appeal as by scholarship, reason, and outreach. She's got it. She uses it, and why shouldn't she? It works! It's fun to watch! Heeeeeerrrrrre's Hillary!

Gordon C. Chang gets it!