Will we recover, unbridle ourselves of debt, innovate, pay for our national security? Or, is China fated to become number one, leaving us to live in a Chinese world?

The only leverage the U.S. had was to cancel the summit as soon as it learned that China was going back on its word.

What matters for China is not whether Westerners believe the system is cracking. The question is: How do the Chinese view their own system?

The Obama administration should have cancelled the summit as soon as it learned that China was going back on its word – that is, until Chen and his family could go back to the embassy and get out of China. As the Chen Guangcheng saga gets stranger and stranger, and becomes a major diplomatic embarrassment for the United States

While Bo's story is about power, it should not obscure the fact that there is an ideological struggle going on inside China.

We are not in a cold war with China. That is too simple a metaphor to describe the state of Sino-American relations.

As Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping, China's next leader, visits with President Obama this week, American Enterprise Institute (AEI) China expert Daniel (Dan) Blumenthal examines US-China relations.

The Obama administration is welcoming China's presumptive next leader, Xi Jinping. But how can it make good policy when the strategy is a mess?