Chinese vice president Xi Jinping is back in China, his U.S. visit having gone off without a hitch. Both sides are claiming that the trip was a smashing success and are asserting that the Sino-American relationship is strong and mature.

Marking the birth of the 7 billionth person on earth, here are five myths challenging everything you think you know about the world's population.

The explanation for China's international rudeness is a threefold recipe for mischief: greater military power combined with leadership weakness and a xenophobic nationalism that China's leadership created.

The story of how the rhythms, tenor, and characteristics of the Sino-American relationship began is recalled in vivid detail and with characteristic eloquence by Kissinger in his new book, On China.

Deng Xiaoping saw George H. W. Bush as an American who some day would lead his country, and Bush saw in Deng a major force in China's future.

China has grown at a more rapid tempo than any country in history and its demographic outlook has changed dramatically.

China's recent exercise of power has been more hard than soft, so it seems Beijing is neither "biding its time" nor rising peacefully.

The European Union should pause in its determined march to lift the arms embargo that it imposed against China for the Tiananmen Square killings of 1989. Europe is set to prove the wrong guys right about the world's willingness to put aside outrage over human rights atrocities when business beckons.