As China grows less predictable and the United States less willing to shoulder its responsibilities, familiar patterns of bilateral relations must change.

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

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

In anticipation of North Korea's imminent missile launch, AEI director of Japan Studies Michael Auslin makes the case for why the US should shoot down the missile in order to preserve peace in the region.

2012 looks to be an interesting year for the already complex political triangle among the United States, Taiwan and China, what with each country undergoing political transitions. Should we expect policy continuity from President Ma Ying-jeou and the likely new Chinese leader Xi Jinping? What about continuity in the United States?

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 authors use ahigh-fidelity driving simulator to compare the performance of cell-phone drivers with drivers who were legally intoxicated from ethanol.

Stanley Crouch discusses a number of the year's events in the worlds of literature, politics, and popular culture in order to comment on the American condition.