For East Asian politicos, there’s not that much to grab headline attention in the world’s most economically dynamic region. Or maybe there is.

Yet his meetings with America’s top leaders, from President Obama on down, will be just as much a chance for Xi to size up the administration’s new policies toward Asia as they are an opportunity for U.S. officials to get a sense of whom they will be dealing with starting this fall.

It’s folly to expect Beijing to seriously help in curbing Pyongyang.

The U.S. economic recovery is facing a number of strong headwinds that make a relapse into recession all too likely, including the appalling state of the U.S. labor market, the ongoing foreclosure crisis, prospective cuts in government spending, and more.

The real question hanging over all this is whether there was a quid pro quo for Mr. Chen’s release.

The Chen Guangcheng saga gets stranger and stranger, but also is becoming a major diplomatic embarrassment for the Obama administration.

The yuan's peg to the U.S. dollar should end for the sake of China, not because of outside pressure.

China's path toward maturity as a classical fascist state puts it on a collision course for conflict with the West.