Obama re-emerges on global stage with trip to Asia, France

Former-President Barack Obama addresses the crowd as the last speaker at final session of the Obama Foundation Summit in Chicago on Nov. 1. (Charles Rex Arbogast/AP PHoto)

WASHINGTON — Now a private citizen, former President Barack Obama re-emerged on the global stage Tuesday as he opened a three-country tour that includes meetings with the leaders of China and India, just as President Donald Trump courts those same world powers.