What does China stand to lose when Chávez dies, and what will Beijing do to preserve its sweetheart oil deals with Venezuela? Join a panel discussion on this timely and significant topic.

Our declared interests in Asia keep growing, we ask PACOM to do what it can to advance them, but we starve them of resources to do the job. We are coming to a point where either we retrench from our commitments in Asia or we decide as a nation to properly fund them.

While U.S. voters were not particularly interested in foreign policy (certainly not Asia policy) during this election, Asia is always interested in U.S. voters.

House Democrats have shown a shameless willingness to play politics with our national security.

A critical review of the record, plans, and prospects of al Qaeda, as the main franchise of global jihad, in the Levant.

The problem of coverage for pre-existing conditions remains relatively small and limited to the individual health insurance market, despite exaggerated claims used to advance passage of the Affordable Care Act. Nevertheless, too many people still remained at risk of falling through the cracks of protective measures provided by HIPAA, COBRA, and state-run high risk pools.

Reformatting the debate structure would force presidential candidates to be more substantive.

The Romney 4 percent Pentagon budget is no “spike”; it’s more like a return to normal, even very constrained military spending given the global mission of America’s armed forces.