What matters for China is not whether Westerners believe the system is cracking. The question is: How do the Chinese view their own system?

The idea that China is practicing a new form of capitalism, and may even be “doing capitalism better than America,” is reaching a fever pitch in policy and business circles.

Tuesday's election results offered a bright morning for those who favor free trade, even though one could quibble about how important the trade issue really was to the outcome.

Much of China policy is also underpinned by belief in the fantastical like unicorns. But unlike unicorns, our China policy excursions into the realm of make believe could be dangerous.

The fascinating departure from the usual pabulum from centrists who insist that they are neither right nor left is nothing less than a desperate abandonment of Obama and the Democratic party in order to preserve the credibility of the ideas driving Obama and the Democratic party.

This year's report by the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission includes a new section on the PRC's efforts to control "information" about China, both inside its borders and abroad.

President Obama seems to believes that experts have all the answers and therefore automatically assumes that his preferred policies are so obviously right that there is no need to debate them, but there is always going to be a downside to even the best policies because the experts do not know as much as they think they do.

There has been an exaggeration on Israel being the source of problems in the Middle East.