In a unique collaboration, the American Enterprise Institute, the Center for a New American Security and the New America Foundation are pleased to invite you to the next event in the "Election 2012: The National Security Agenda" series in this presidential campaign season.

An expanded understanding of the "string of pearls" strategy suggests a China that is more expansionist, more mercantilist, and less interested in "peaceful development" than many analysts often contend.

Many of the GSEs have provided valuable benefits in the past. However, the special-purpose GSE charter is no longer suited to today's fast-moving financial markets.

China riding to Europe's rescue assumes a narrative in which China's mercantilist approach has allowed it to take a leading role in world affairs. In fact, it illustrates the pitfalls to the Chinese way of doing business.

This booktraces the origins of GSEs, contrasts investor-owned and cooperative GSEs, and examines such issues as activities and the quality of oversight.

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.

In the wake of this week's progress on advancing the U.S.-Colombia free trade agreement, most of the U.S. criticism, naturally, argues that the agreement is not in the U.S. interest.