On her first overseas trip as the top US diplomat, Secretary of State Hillary R Clinton would embark on a week-long visit to China, Japan, South Korea and Indonesia later in February.
Clinton will visit the four countries starting February 15, with the global financial crisis, climate change and efforts to get North Korea to abandon its nuclear weapons topping her agenda, State Department spokesperson Robert Wood
said on Thursday.
Asia is "growing in size, in influence and prosperity" and the secretary felt that "going to Asia would send a tremendous signal to Asia and others in the world of the importance of