As Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping, China's next leader, visits with President Obama this week, American Enterprise Institute (AEI) China expert Daniel (Dan) Blumenthal examines US-China relations.

An underlying assumption of U.S. economic engagement with China is that the market forces unleashed by international trade and investment will necessarily spur economic and political change in Chinese society. To what extent has this assumption been borne out by more than two decades of booming economic ties between the...

AEI and the Project 2049 Institute will cohost a conference examining US policy toward China, particularly American engagement of Chinese civil society.

The Obama administration is welcoming China's presumptive next leader, Xi Jinping. But how can it make good policy when the strategy is a mess?

China's engagement in Latin America is not necessarily bad news- except when it comes at the expense of American interests and security in the region.

That the Hu Jintao visit was a nonevent is just as well, for the United States could use a little quiet time to rethink its basic approach to China's rise.

The world usually turns out to work differently from what American presidents expected when they were campaigning.

Since the end of Sri Lanka's brutal twenty-six-year-old civil war in 2009, the country has largely been under the radar for Washington's policy community. This panel discussion will look at all aspects of the current situation--including geopolitics, peace building, and accountability--with a view to determining how US engagement can promote a more positive postconflict environment in Sri Lanka.