With the New START treaty ratified, the Obama administration can turn its attention to the real source of nuclear instability among the great powers: China's buildup of conventional ballistic missiles.

Chinese foreign policy is becoming increasingly aggressive and while the Obama administration is sending the right message in response, there is still a chance to present China with a choice: act like a responsible power or face a great wall of resistance.

Taiwan continues to progress towards democracy, but must establish a beneficial economic relationship with China.

As persuasive it may be on its face, the case for rethinking US Taiwan policy and, more specifically, withdrawing American security assistance, is overstated. Such a policy change would not serve the interests of the United States, Taiwan, or China; nor would it solve the problems its proponents claim they want to address.

Even while attention was focused on the more positive theme of US-India relations, a potential new crisis was brewing elsewhere in Asia, this time around Beijing and Taipei.

Celebration in Washington over the January 2008 election results for Taiwan's legislaturewould be premature.

Richard Bush"s new book Untying the Knot helps clarify the complex intersection of U.S. interests in the Taiwan Strait.

Notably absent from a book about Iraq is any consideration of what Iraqis think.