Amanpour: Obama's 100 days of Foreign Affairs

By Mei Kin Chew

With all the talks and media coverage on how President Obama shook hands with the Venezuelan President, bow to Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah and how First Lady hugged the Queen, one would think that body language has played an essential part in Obama's foreign language policies. Indeed, these customs and non-verbal languages were important, not insomuch that it means more than what a gesture do in the most basic terms; a form of respect.

And with that said, a silver lining for the American President's hardwork is that global polls with regards to sentiments as an aftermath of President Obama's overseas visit has received favorable results; the world is STARTING to LIKE US again!

President Obama's address to the world on his movement towards a more 'friendly' and 'approachable' foreign policy even during his inaugaration has awed and shocked many, in a good way and although he has not created history in cracking down the Islamic militants, he has proven his grounds. It will be a long way, or maybe President Obama will somehow find his way to do so, before the United States will be spared from worldwide critics for all that the country as a whole had done or not do to the world; good or bad. However, the measures and actions that have been taken by the 44th president have surely set a lighter tone on this well flawed reputation of a superpower.