Obama talks trade in Radio Address

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama is touting his recent Asian trip as a way to drum up thousands of jobs back home.

In his radio and Internet address, Obama says "Asia is a region where we now buy more goods and do more trade with than any other place in the world." He says that commerce "supports millions of jobs back home."

The president pitched his trip as a way to reintroduce the U.S. to those trading partners, including China.

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Obama says if the United States can increase exports to the Asia-Pacific region by 5 percent, then the markets would create "hundreds of thousands" of jobs as a trading partner.

The president also says there can't be any solutions to climate change or energy without the cooperation of Asian and Pacific nations. Repeating a theme he used abroad, Obama told the U.S. audience that the discussions directly affect U.S. national security.