The political development of Middle East and Central Asia (MECA) went through the whole 20th century. Since the collapse of the Ottoman Empire after the First W

The perennial problem in Sino-U.S. relations, U.S. arms sales to Taiwan, has stolen newspaper headlines again.

On this 10th anniversary of the terrorist attacks of September 11th, 2001, we remember that 9/11 was not only an attack on the United States, it was an attack o

In fact, the real problem between the two countries, and their militaries, is not that they don’t know the other’s worries or concerns.

The annual release of the Pentagon’s Report on China’s military always engenders strong reactions, in Beijing, in U.S. policy circles and around the world. Notwithstanding the many audiences to which the Report addresses itself and the issues that many of those audiences have with various elements of the Report, it is the most authoritative U.S. government reference on the PLA, and by extension one of the most frequently cited open source analyses in the world

The political disorders sweeping through North Africa and the Middle East, following last year’s civil strife in Kyrgyzstan, have intensified international concerns about Central Asia’s security at a time when the region has become an increasingly important transit route through which NATO supplies reach the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in Afghanistan.

Both China and the United States are playing an increasingly crucial role in Central Asia, where they have common and divergent interests, cooperation and competition. The common interests of China and US in Central Asia can mainly be identified in these areas

China US experts comment on how China and the US can work together on different issues in the the Middle East and Central Asia.

Some international media outlets have been sensationalizing the "Asia-minus-one" concept, claiming that an "invisible alliance" is forming among countries neigh

Since the EP-3 Hainan Island Incident in 2001, several rows have broken out between China and the U.S. over the navigational rights of military vessels in China