The removal of a top Communist party official doesn’t tell us much.

While Bo's story is about power, it should not obscure the fact that there is an ideological struggle going on inside China.

China's new leadership is threatening to stay content with slower economic growth, and the country's manufacturing, housing, and export sectors are experiencing problems. Nonetheless, China has an opportunity to influence economic growth in 2012 through stimulus measures to its own economy.

The European financial crisis and the ineffective effort to stop Iran’s nuclear-weapons program are crashing into each other. As the European Union adopts new restrictions on importing Iranian oil, the most-troubled EU economies will continue to seek delays and exceptions.

China and Russia have decided to renounce the U.S. dollar and want to use their own currencies for bilateral trade in an attempt to lodge a complaint about its mismanagement.

On November 3, Beijing will welcome more than forty-eight African heads of state to what it bills as "the highest-level, largest-scale meeting between China and African leaders since the founding of the People's Republic of China." This meeting is the latest in China's charm offensive in Africa, which has included...

Most often, the slogan "fair trade" is little more than a rallying cry for protectionism.

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.