Gary Regenstreif, Reuters
Robert Kaplan, Stratfor
Ai Weiwei, The Guardian
Tom Hartsfield, RealClearScience
Joseph Nye, Los Angeles Times

Though the U.S. and Chinese presidents heralded a “new model” of cooperation at their weekend summit, a growing competition looks more likely. The whirlwind of activity before ...(full article)

Significant movements in world affairs often go unnoticed by the media. For what fits inside the strictures of hard news are usually dramatic statements by politicians, dramatic ac...(full article)

Both governments think they are doing what is best for the state and people. But, as I know, such abuse of power can ruin lives....(full article)

Since 2011 the United States has launched exactly zero astronauts into space. Meanwhile China has sent up six, including three on Tuesday. In 2012, China successfully launched 19 r...(full article)

China will almost certainly pass the United States in the total size of its economy within a decade or so. But if one looks also at military and "soft power" resources, the U.S. is...(full article)
Many people in the West remember the Tiananmen Square incident of June 4, 1989. Far fewer are aware that nearly 100 years ago another generation of young Chinese demonstrated in th...
According to a Chinese article widely circulated on the Internet, the Obama-Xi summit meeting last weekend has made Prime Minister Shinzo Abe of Japan jealous. Published in People&...
Over the last two weeks, the movie, American Dreams in China (中国合伙人) has been the number one box office hit in China, selling over 400 million tickets to date. The movie ...
There was never any guarantee that President Obama and President Xi Jinping of China would end their informal talks over the weekend with a deeper and more productive relationship....
Chinese President Xi Jinping and President Obama emerged from their "shirt-sleeve summit" on the weekend touting new cooperation on climate change and North Korea. The big exceptio...
India’s political, cultural, and historical ties to Central Asia date back to antiquity. But contemporary circumstances, namely the quest for energy and the threat of terrorism...
Ronald Reagan, that ardent warrior of the Cold War, used a signature phrase — a Russian proverb, as it happens — to explain his approach to relations with the Soviet Union: ...
Analysts are busy revising their China 2013 growth estimates downwards after Beijing, ahead of a three-day holiday, released May numbers this weekend. Trade figures, announced ye...
Why Xi got the upper hand in his recent visit to the United States....
This weekend, President Barack Obama sat down for a series of meetings with China's newly appointed leader, Xi Jinping. We know that the two leaders spoke at length about the topic...
The most recent survey from the All-China Women’s Federation found some 61 million “left-behind children” across China, who are growing up without one or both par...
They are half a world apart, separated by a gulf of language and history and democracy, but the two most successful countries in the world are coming to resemble each other in impo...
The best you can say about the Obama-Xi summit was that it happened. The fact that these two leaders both traveled a few thousand miles to see each other in lovely southern Califor...
As China's Xi Jinping and Barack Obama wrap up their first presidential summit in California, some ancient Greek wisdom is in the news. It is about a long war bet-ween Sparta and A...
Although Xi's dream has echoes of the American Dream, these two visions are very different and ultimately incompatible if China desires to become a "responsible stakeholder" in the...
In China, women expose the brutality of labor camps....
The New York Times report that China purchases nearly half of Iraq’s oil exports set off something of a firestorm in the U.S this week. In fact, outrage over the NYT’s article ...
Peng Liyuan, China’s first lady, may want to get herself a new phone. The wife of Xi Jinping, the president, was snapped this week in Mexico taking pictures on an iPhone. The...
There is an old adage that the value of summits is in inverse proportion to the number of participants, and that is doubly true when the two countries involved are China and the US...
Gen. Jung Seung-jo, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, flew to Beijing on a C-130 military transport plane Tuesday for the first official visit to China by a South Korean milit...
There are plenty of good reasons for America to be nervous about the rise of a new economic giant and to be angry about cyber-attacks, obstructionism over Syria or the regime&rsquo...
China and the United States simply do not trust one another. And nothing seems to change that, no matter how many high-level exchanges, strategic dialogues, informal consultations,...
Emerging from the ranks of one of the world's poorest nations to second only to the United States, China is destined for a place in the history books. But history may also record t...
While dealing with his Cold War nemesis the Soviet Union, U.S. President Ronald Reagan said he liked to employ the aphorism “trust but verify.” I thought at the t...
Washington and Beijing could use a breakthrough in their fraught relationship, writes Orville Schell. And ahead of this weekend’s summit, they have more in common than ever....
These are tense times in Asia’s waters. In just the past month, Vietnam accused a Chinese vessel of ramming one of its fishing boats, damaging the hull. The Philippines prote...
This week's summit meeting between Chinese President Xi Jinping and President Barack Obama offers a historic opportunity to improve U.S.-China relations - but only if both sides fr...
With China's aggressive assertion of its territorial claims causing general concern, it has taken to wooing one of its major rivals - India. While not spurning China's move, India ...
Shortsighted is the one thing that custodians of the U.S.- China relationship can’t afford to be. And for more than three decades, American and Chinese leaders have taken the...
It all seemed so promising. In December 2009, U.S. President Barack Obama flew to Copenhagen to try to reach an agreement on a legally binding treaty for climate change. The sheer ...
History looms larger for those who lost. Chinese President Xi Jinping, who on Thursday meets Barack Obama, his US counterpart, in California, bears national expectations that have ...
China has always played a weak hand brilliantly. When Mao Zedong and Zhou met with Nixon and Henry Kissinger, China was in the midst of economic, political and cultural chaos. Its ...
With North Korea likely to field a reliable nuclear deterrent within the next 5-10 years, the U.S. has a closing window of opportunity to end the cyclical provocations from Pyong...
This week’s summit meeting between President Obama and President Xi Jinping of China is an important opportunity for the leaders of the world’s two largest economies to...
Who are the happiest people in China? In a survey conducted by Xiaokang (meaning basically well-off) magazine last year, in the eyes of the public, civil servant comes top of the l...
In an increasingly tense Asia, Japan is making a series of diplomatic and political moves that are enraging China. The consequences could be severe....
"What belongs to us belongs to us," Benigno S. Aquino III, President of the Philippines, said in a speech marking the 115th anniversary of the country's navy. In January of this ye...
Presidents Barack Obama and Xi Jinping won’t be the first notables to check into the sprawling Sunnylands estate in Southern California in search of seclusion and a chance fo...
The Spratly Islands—not so long ago known primarily as a rich fishing ground—have turned into an international flashpoint as Chinese leaders insist with increasing truc...
When President Obama and Chinese President Xi Jinping meet this weekend for a highly anticipated trust-building summit in California, Xi will have his wife with him. But first lady...
Looking in isolation just at the growing Chinese stake in Iraqi oil and putting aside for a moment the symbolic power of that trend, it’s worth remembering that the global en...
In case the Iraq war was not catastrophe enough, we now know what the trillion dollars and thousands of US casualties and injuries and tens of thousands of sectarian deaths were fo...
It is true that, even after China becomes the world’s largest economy, the average American will be far richer than the average Chinese. It is also true that the US military has ...
Connect the dots, and it appears that the formidable force multiplier of U.S. defense technology has been compromised by a potential adversary's ability to carbon copy -- for a fra...
The world should stop panicking over China (CNGDPYOY)’s economic slowdown. It’s actually a good thing....
(ChinaPost.com.tw) - The former CIA employee who suddenly burst into headlines around the globe by r...
(ChinaPost.com.tw) - Six-year-old Keke looks silently from a bare living room at her closest compani...