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

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.

The real question hanging over all this is whether there was a quid pro quo for Mr. Chen’s release.

As Secretary of State Hillary Clinton heads to China this week for yearly strategic consultations, a daring bid for political asylum has highlighted the seething dissent beneath China’s surface stability.

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?

A veteran legislator, advocate for democracy, and key political adviser to Taiwan president Chen Shui-bian, first lady Chen Wu Sue-Jen will visit Washington for the first time since becoming first lady of the Republic of China. Over the past two decades, Madame Chen and her husband have overcome numerous adversities...

Since Taiwan’s President Chen Shui-bian’s 2004 pledge to pursue constitutional revision, Chinese commentators have warned that Chen will manipulate the process to achieve de jure independence from the mainland, a step it says would lead to war. Despite Beijing’s saber rattling, constitutional reform on Taiwan has been a central...