One of the main sources of tension in Asia nowadays are the Spratly Islands in the South China Sea, where the Philippines, Vietnam, China, and others have confl

The new round of talks between the United States and China on Asia-Pacific region policies and issues in the last week of June are significant to both Sino-U.S.

It is summertime, and everyone is out sailing on the South China Sea. Unfortunately, the waters have gotten a bit choppy.  The Philippines and Vietnam, in part

In early May, I gave an interview to the Chinese state-run Global Times newspaper arguing that China was probably ‘the loneliest rising great power in world hi

In July 2010, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton addressed reporters after attending the 17th ministerial meeting of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations

U.S.–China military-to-military relations have a very rocky history over the past two decades. Mutual suspicion, as well as fluctuations in the broader U.S.–C

In his speech at the opening ceremony of the Bo'ao Asia Forum last month, Chinese President Hu Jintao declared that China will try to settle all territorial

Premier Wen Jiabao will be attending the East Asian Summit Meeting in Indonesia in October this year, but he insisted on coming this spring for his official vis

Although it would be good for China and good for the world if the RMB became a fully-fledged international reserve currency, competing with the dollar and the euro, it is not clear that China will take all measures necessary to make that possible.

The recently concluded 10th anniversary Boao Forum for Asia (BFA) was a notable landmark for the colloquium that has witnessed rapid growth in Asia since starti