Lasting 40 days and putting American holidays to shame, travel during this year’s Chinese New Year celebration is expected to top 3.6 billion trips or segments and will be the world’s largest human migration. It is essential to understand and respect this part of Chinese culture in the Year of the Horse.

Will China take a more proactive role in resolving the Iranian nuclear issue? As Dr. Jin Liangxiang explains, China remains an economic victim in the dispute and must promote reconciliation between the West and Iran.

Li Zhaoxian writes that the interim agreement on Iran does not bode well for a fundamental change in US-Iran relations, and that the eventual resolution of the nuclear issue will likely remain an extravagant hope.

During the past week’s acrimonious public debate over the stalled nuclear negotiations in Geneva regarding Iran, China has escaped public censure. Beijing’s low profile was not due to indifference, but to China’s complex relationship with Iran and the United States.

While the thought of transplanting your entire life to a remote region of the globe is daunting to most, an expatriate with experience living throughout the Asia-Pacific explains that nearly anyone can find success in China with the proper planning and priorities.

In spite of the fact that China and the US have converging interests in counter-terrorism, nuclear non-proliferation and Palestine-Israel peace in the Middle East, it can be noted that some of their fundamental political and security interests are different, and even conflict with each other.