The U.S. is more active on trade policy than it has been in years.  President Obama is meeting with Canada and Mexico about new agreements, Congress will hold hearings on changing decades-old trade law, and the federal government will more broadly be bringing several cases before the WTO.

Yet, in constructing...

President Clinton"s trip to Seattle later this week is fraught with significance.

The decision to invest in such an airplane no doubt began well before Hu Jintao's rule and is a reflection of the ambitions that China's leaders-indeed, probably a majority of Chinese people-share.

President Obama's response to events in the Middle East, particularly in Libya, are so opaque, so convoluted, it's tempting to think there's some ingenious master plan in effect behind the scenes that he hasn't clued us in on.

Even if the trigger isn't enacted, I am concerned that guidance from the White House would direct cuts beyond what the Defense Department is prepared to absorb. It's time to focus our fiscal restraint on the driver of our debt, not the protector of our prosperity.

The report of the AEI/Armitage International Taiwan Policy Working Group.

Sudden stops and reversals in capital flows are the stuff of policymakers’ nightmares. The last 20 years of research shows that the capital-inflow dilemma is not an external problem–it is an eternal one.

If pursued skillfully, the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement has the potential to reconfigure Asian trade in a way that would be beneficial to the United States and to the Asia-Pacific region.