Michael Rubin criticizes an analysis of former Iranian president Muhammad Khatami and gives limited praise to a book examining Sino-Iranian relations.

U.S. interests will not be advanced by an engagement policy with Beijing that values the atmospherics of a good relationship above all else.

The Chinese government has gambled that embracing Iran and Saudi Arabia in lucrative oil and weapons deals will buy it some protection from their export of political Islam.

A National Review Online symposiumdiscussing President Bush's upcoming visit with Chinese President Hu.

Gary Schmitt examines the concept of China's theory of "peaceful rise."

There have been two major books published this summer on relations between the United States and China: Henry Kissinger's On China and this one. And while Kissinger himself has had an immense impact on how those relations have unfolded over the past four decades, Aaron L. Friedberg's volume, A Contest for Supremacy, will likely be far more important in laying out the path forward.

While I agree that there's no question that America's ability to field a military second to none depends on our economic fundamentals, the position of "superpower" seems to me a bit more complex.

Never has the modern Russian state been less imperialist, less militarized, less threatening to its neighbors and the world, and more receptive to Western ideals and practices than it is in 1998.