In this age of ballooning U.S. debt, it’s hardly surprising that many Democrats and Republicans are pushing to reduce American military spending. But a closer examination of what’s at stake reveals just how troubling the embrace of defense austerity will prove to be.

John Pomfret's front page article in the Washington Post on the Obama administration's arm twisting of the Dalai Lama is further reason to doubt that the president's "strategic reassurance" policy is anything but a policy of appeasing the PRC.

Public and elite opinion now consists of a mix of anger at the Chinese regime for its corruption, inequality, and brutality; national pride; and aggrieved nationalism.

A transcript ofthe keynote address at the Camden Conference on China.

China's Protestant minority is growing in numbers, influence, and respectability. Can its values provide a firm foundation for Chinese civil society?