While the United States has more or less effectively taken advantage of the opportunities afforded by China’s rise, its record on addressing the challenges posed by that rise is shakier. These challenges, of course, are great and threaten to directly impinge on U.S. national security interests.

You are invited to participate in a conversation with AEI's James R. Lilley, Jeffrey Lilley--his son and coauthor--and former CIA director William Webster on the publication of China Hands: Nine Decades of Adventure, Espionage, and Diplomacy in Asia (PublicAffairs, April 2004). Ambassador Lilley's memoirs not only chronicle three...

Review of China Hands: Nine Decades of Adventure, Espionage, and Diplomacy in Asia by James R. Lilley and Jeffrey Lilley.

The rapid ticking of the Iran nuclear clock also marks an increasingly dark hour for the United States and its closest allies and partners, because it coincides with a third clock that Pollack did not imagine in 2004: the timetable of retreat set in motion by Barack Obama.

Chinese telecom-equipment maker Huawei has become a global corporate giant, yet security concerns from US officials have kept it from gaining a foothold in America, intensifying US-China tensions. In a time of great economic need, US desire for foreign direct investment from China is clashing with fears over cyber attacks from organizations suspected to be under Beijing’s influence.

There are some similarities between the seizure of the U.S. embassy and the attack against the British embassy, and history indeed seems to be repeating itself.

Many forget that America's pro-Israel policy advances vital practical and strategic goals. If we abandon Israel now, it would be worse than a crime.

In China Hands: Nine Decades of Adventure, Espionage, and Diplomacy in Asia, James R. Lilley reflects upon his family's service in China.