Obama's Asia Trip: Post-Mortem

John Feffer, 11.20.2009

Co-director of Foreign Policy In Focus

Critics of the Obama administration were delighted at the images from the president's recent trip to Asia. There was the deep bow before the emperor A...

Foreign Affairs Roundup

Christopher Herbert and Victoria Kataoka Rebuffet, 11.20.2009

Editors of Simple Intelligence

The Past Two Week's Top Stories in Foreign Affairs: Increased Tension Over Iran's Program SI Analysis: After an IAEA report suggests that Iran's rece...

Keeping Our Children Safe this Holiday Season

Inez Moore Tenenbaum, 11.20.2009

Chairman, Consumer Product Safety Commission

Fortunately, this year, you can holiday shop for your child or grandchild with more confidence than ever before. That's because there are new rules on your side and the side of America's children.

Weekly Mulch: No Treaty in Copenhagen?

The Media Consortium, 11.20.2009

Network of Leading Progressive Independent Journalism Organizations

By Raquel Brown, Media Consortium Blogger Last weekend in Singapore, President Barack Obama acknowledged that a comprehensive international climate d...

Mighty Movie Podcast: John Woo on Red Cliff

Dan Persons, 11.20.2009

Film Journalist

The short form would be that John Woo rediscovered himself in returning to China, but that really doesn't capture what's going on. Woo made his name w...

Better Start Learning Chinese

Shawn Amos, 11.20.2009

Pop Culture Pundit and Host of 'Retro Minute'

I was watching Obama speak to those Shanghai students during his big Asia trip, and suddenly I remembered my '80s high school Spanish class. My teache...

Green News Report -- November 19, 2009 (Audio)

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen, 11.19.2009

Co-Hosts, Green News Report

IN TODAY'S AUDIO REPORT: Scientists warn while Americans yawn; Climate Thunder Down Under: it's fire season again in Australia, while their debate ...

The New Arms Race

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., 11.19.2009

America will not win the arms race of the 21st century with rockets, but with robust investment in and support of U.S.-based green technology. While Congress dawdles, China is clobbering us.

The Dam That Shook the Earth

Peter Bosshard, 11.19.2009

International Rivers, Policy Director

Scientists agree that dams can trigger earthquakes. A new paper presents evidence that the devastating earthquake in China's Sichuan Province in 2008, was triggered by the Zipingpu Dam.

Obama's Home And The Report Is Out: China Takes Us to School

Eric Lotke, 11.19.2009

Research Director at the Campaign for America's Future and author of 2044

While Obama posed for photos on the Great Wall and talked about a relationship "at an all-time high," China continues to take our lunch money.

Gone with the Wind: Blowing U.S. Tax Dollars Off Shore

Leo W. Gerard, 11.19.2009

President, United Steelworkers International

Washington has doled out hundreds of millions in stimulus funds to foreign renewable energy firms, which compete with and run all over fledgling U.S. firms that were supposed to get the money.

Will China Win the War on Terrorism?

Leon T. Hadar, 11.19.2009

Journalist and foreign affairs analyst

The aftermath of 9/11 led to a US foreign policy fixation on terrorist roots in the Mideast. Meanwhile, the Pacific Rim got the cold shoulder, alienating friends in the region and damaging strategic interests.

Rising Tigers, Sleeping Giant -- New Report on Competitiveness in Clean Tech

Jesse Jenkins, 11.20.2009

Director of Energy and Climate Policy, Breakthrough Institute

A major new report released today is the first to comprehensively benchmark the competitiveness positions of the United States and key Asian challengers in the global clean energy race.

An Open Letter to My Favorite President Ever: You Can Do Better.

Matt Browner Hamlin, 11.18.2009

Writer, activist, organizer.

President Obama, with all due respect... and I recognize that there is indeed a lot of respect due, I write to tell you that you can do better.

China and the Obese: The President Meets His Greatest Problems

Michael Wolff, 11.18.2009

Author of Newser.com's Off the Grid column

For all sorts of obvious reasons, it seems like a greatly unacceptable and possibly discriminatory thing to say that the obese are a lot like the Chin...

Paul Krugman: China, Climate Change

Alison van Diggelen, 11.18.2009

Host, FreshDialogues.com

"Climate change is the mother of all externalities ... left without any government intervention, we're going to par-boil the planet," says Krugman.

Presidential Silence in Beijing

Jerry Fowler, 11.18.2009

President of the Save Darfur Coalition

Less than a month after announcing a new strategy for Sudan, President Obama left China early this morning without any public reference to having it up Sudan with his hosts.

Obama, China, and Wishful Thinking About American Jobs

Robert Reich, 11.17.2009

Former Secretary of Labor, Professor at Berkeley

The dirty little secret on each side of the Pacific is that both America and China are capable of producing far more than their own consumers are capable of buying. The root of the problem is in domestic inequality.

Green News Report -- November 17, 2009 (Audio)

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen, 11.17.2009

Co-Hosts, Green News Report

Welcome aboard to our latest new affiliate station - KJFK 1230am in Reno, NV! IN TODAY'S AUDIO REPORT: Obama in China with Hu... (and how and when...

Navigating China: Ten Months On, and a Lot to Show for It

Steve Orlins, 11.17.2009

President, National Committee on United States-China Relations

I continue to be optimistic that close, frequent contact between American and Chinese leaders will add muscle to the kinds of cooperative agreements that are necessary to tackle major shared issues of the day.

Does America Have a China Policy?

Will Marshall, 11.17.2009

President and Founder, Progressive Policy Institute

President Obama's visit to China has underscored the dramatically unbalanced nature of the Sino-American relationship. No, not the oft-lamented imbala...