On July 28, U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton wrapped up meetings with their Chinese counterparts at the first session of the U.S.-China Strategic and Economic Dialogue. While human rights remained an issue too thorny to tackle full-force in this round of the high-level talks,...

Beijing's tactics keep backfiring. On December 2, Chinese officials announced that the estimated death toll from the melamine scandal doubled from three to six babies and the number hospitalized jumped from 53,000 to 300,000. China's leaders have pledged to overhaul its dairy industry, but their public health record leaves much...