Is the Common Agenda dead or alive under the Republican administration of U.S. President George W. Bush?
Japan and the United States launched the Common Agenda in 1993 upon the inauguration of former President Bill Clinton as a pillar of economic "framework" talks, which replaced the Structural Impediments Initiative instituted by Bush's father and Clinton's predecessor, George Bush.
The Common Agenda was aimed at promoting a partnership between the world's two largest economies in addressing a wide range of problems with global repercussions, environmental destruction and explosive population growth among them.