The only leverage the U.S. had was to cancel the summit as soon as it learned that China was going back on its word.

We must move beyond utopian dreams of goading unions into good behavior andrecognize that labor strife may be the birth pains of real school reform.

What exactly was gained at the talks with Iran last Saturday? Catherine Ashton, EU foreign policy honcho, pronounced the talks “constructive and useful.

If partisan political bickering prevents us from recognizing the reality that Iran really has scored an important and damaging victory over the United States in Iraq through the failure of the these negotiations to extend our troop presence, then the prospects for any intelligent strategy to respond to that failure are dim indeed.

Obama's irresolution and inaction could well make a nuclear Iran his most lasting legacy.

After Congress passes FTAs with Korea, Columbia and Panama, the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP) will become the single most important US trade initiative, serving as a building block for a larger Free Trade Area for the Asia Pacific Agreement.

The Doha Round will most likely not be completed in 2011, although it would go farther than any other single trade advance to further the goals of doubling US exports by 2014.

Indian bureaucrats and politicians must overcome short-term thinking and improve India's IP systems by ensuring that deserving products receive patents and making sure trademarks are enforced. Only then will India develop a true innovation economy.