Feb 25, 2015

Democracy has not featured as a theme of President Barack Obama’s foreign policy. He took office promising to withdraw troops from Afghanistan and Iraq, not to

Feb 25, 2015

Last week’s White House summit discussed the best way to counter violent extremism. It’s too bad key Chinese officials weren’t there — they might have learn

Feb 21, 2015

China’s frantic construction activity on a series of disputed reefs in the South China Sea has set off alarm bells across the Pacific and in Washington, raisin

Jan 27, 2015

China owns more U.S. Treasury securities than anyone but the U.S. government itself. So when China’s foreign exchange reserves — after piling up steadily, yea

Jan 16, 2015

When President Barack Obama in September secured passage of a U.N. Security Council resolution requiring nations to prevent their citizens from traveling abroad

Dec 24, 2014

Recent events have given grist to both optimists and pessimists about the Sino-Japanese relationship. On Nov. 10, Chinese President Xi Jinping and Japanese Prim

Dec 19, 2014

Recent events have given grist to both optimists and pessimists about the Sino-Japanese relationship. On Nov. 10, Chinese President Xi Jinping and Japanese Prim

Dec 18, 2014

The railroad barons of China made their largest overseas deal ever on Nov. 19, signing a $12 billion contract with the government of Nigeria to build a train li

Dec 17, 2014

Zhou Yongkang’s Dec. 5 arrest and expulsion from the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) surprised no one: His spectacular fall from power has followed the unwritten

Dec 06, 2014

A chill has gripped Hong Kong. The Occupy Central movement, which advocated for open nomination rights in the 2017 election for chief executive, the city’s hea