Dec 18, 2014

This year began with some Chinese and American foreign-policy analysts looking back a century to World War I and wondering if confrontation was inevitable betwe

Dec 03, 2014

Has the Chinese government led by Xi Jinping dramatically increased anti-foreign propaganda in its official media over the past year? The New York Times made th

Nov 24, 2014

The United States-China agreement on climate change is a huge political triumph, possibly “historic,” as its supporters say. Whether it much alters the world

Nov 21, 2014

Historic. Such is the ubiquitous description of the climate agreement recently announced in Beijing between Barack Obama and Xi Jinping in which China promised

Nov 07, 2014

Despite this week’s elections, President Obama has the time and scope to do big things over the next two years. But they will have to be in the world beyond Wa