There are good reasons why the rhetoric from Moscow is harsher than Beijing’s. For a start, China knows lashing out at the U.S. is counterproductive.

While political reform is necessary for economic growth, it is not sufficient--only private property right enforcement adds sufficiency for growth.

The real reason that Zimbabwe has collapsed is that there is no protection of private property. The result is "dead capital" and total economic annihilation.

Zimbabwe needs reinstatement of land rights and compensation to those robbed. Political reform isnecessary but not sufficient;private property rightsare crucialfor economic growth.

The People's Republic of China late last week gave private property equal legal status to state property in order to bolster China's market reforms.

It's time for Congress to adopt a new strategy for dealing with human rights abuses in the People's Republic.

Is property right protection vital for development and conservation in Zimbabwe and the rest of Africa?

For a man regarded as an icon of the international Left to have moved successfully to trim the privileges of the public-sector unions in his country is a major achievement for Brazil's Lula.