Will Obama Help Change Asia's Racism?
President Obama's visit to Asia showed how long a journey it's been since the 1955 Bandung Conference, the historic meeting of African and Asian states striving for self-determination.
President Obama's visit to Asia showed how long a journey it's been since the 1955 Bandung Conference, the historic meeting of African and Asian states striving for self-determination.
guardian.co.uk | Tania Branigan | Posted 11.18.2009 | Business
Speaking before his meeting today with the Chinese premier, Wen Jiabao, he told reporters that the American relationship with China was deepening beyo...
Elizabeth Lynch | Posted 11.19.2009 | World
President Obama's town hall gave the Chinese people a look at an alternative form of leadership. It is no wonder that there was a tremendous amount of push back to the President's request to hold one.
New York Times | HELENE COOPER and EDWARD WONG | Posted 11.17.2009 | World
President Obama made a big effort Tuesday at presenting his first visit to China as a step forward in America's evolving relationship with its fastest...
Elizabeth Lynch | Posted 11.05.2009 | World
While the White House has yet to release President Obama's schedule, expect President Obama and President Hu Jintao to discuss military ties, global economic health, climate change and human rights.
Sen. Fritz Hollings | Posted 10.22.2009 | World
Washington obscures the Trade War by calling it globalization. Globalization is nothing more than a trade war with production looking for countries cheaper to produce.
Zachary Karabell | Posted 10.13.2009 | World
China is emerging as the new power in the global economic pantheon, and their embrace of Russia is a clear sign that they wish to become less engaged with the U.S. rather than more.
Joe Cirincione | Posted 10.13.2009 | World
A small group of conservative Japanese defense officials have spread the view that if the United States reduces its nuclear arsenal, then Japan will build its own nuclear bombs.
Hollywood Reporter | Posted 10.09.2009 | Media
In an unprecedented exchange, Chinese president Hu Jintao and global media executives including News Corp chief executive Rupert Murdoch sparred in su...
Roseann M. Lake | Posted 10.10.2009 | Home
As a westerner living in the capital, I have mixed feelings about the 60th anniversary. I was initially vexed to learn that Beijingers couldn't attend their own country's parade.
Jeffrey B. Swartz | Posted 10.05.2009 | Green
The leader of the largest polluting country in the world has now publicly declared accountability and committed to redemption. It deserves to be recognized as meaningful, if imperfect, progress.
The Washington Post | John Pomfret | Posted 10.05.2009 | World
In an attempt to gain favor with China, the United States pressured Tibetan representatives to postpone a meeting between the Dalai Lama and President...
Henryk Szadziewski | Posted 10.01.2009 | World
Just as Deng made a bold move to take China into an era of economic reform, Hu will have to make a bold move, by talking with dissenters to take China into an era of meaningful political reform.
Betsy Taylor | Posted 09.29.2009 | Green
We must protect ourselves against the dark vision of rising seas and temperatures, but not by numbly going through the motions with our actions and alerts. The times call for more risk-taking.
AP | MICHAEL CASEY | Posted 09.28.2009 | Politics
BANGKOK — The United Nations on Monday warned world leaders they have only 70 days to reach a new deal to limit global warming, while environmen...
Jake Schmidt | Posted 09.24.2009 | Green
For too long, China and the U.S. have hidden behind the other's inaction. Yet both countries are changing; both countries are beginning to act. Now there is opening for partnership.
Duncan Quirk | Posted 11.22.2009 | Comedy
GlobalPost | Posted 11.17.2009 | World
BEIJING, China �" U.S. President Barack Obama's tough new stand on China is not playing well in Beijing. A week before meeting President Hu Jintao ...
Elizabeth Lynch | Posted 09.17.2009 | World
The Chinese Communist Party is unified by one principle: to remain in power. Any organized effort, even if within the confines of the law, will be viewed as a threat to the CCP's authority.
Al Jazeera English | Posted 08.28.2009 | World
The United States and China have signed an agreement to promote greater co-operation on climate change....
AP | DEBBY WU | Posted 08.27.2009 | World
TAIPEI, Taiwan — The Taiwanese and Chinese presidents swapped messages Monday, the first such exchange since the two sides split amid civil war ...
Huffington Post | Stuart Whatley | Posted 08.20.2009 | World
The world is full of bad leaders, from dictators to gaffe-prone buffoons, but some are surely worse than others. Below is a selection of 10 leaders w...
AP | VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV | Posted 07.17.2009 | World
YEKATERINBURG, Russia — The leaders of four major emerging economies _ Russia, China, Brazil and India _ apparently failed Tuesday to reach cons...
wsj.com | MICHAEL M. PHILLIPS | Posted 06.28.2009 | Business
WASHINGTON -- U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner heads to Beijing this weekend to urge Chinese leaders to fundamentally alter the export-oriente...
David A. Love | Posted 11.21.2009 | World