Minxin Pei, the author of China’s Trapped Transition: The Limits of Developmental Autocracy, is the Tom and Margot Pritzker Professor of Government and Director of the Keck Center for International and Strategic Studies at Claremont McKenna College. He discussed China’s high-profile fury over a $6.4 billion U.S. arms sale to Taiwan with McClatchy-Tribune foreign-affairs columnist [...]

As negotiations continue to force North Korea to end its dangerously irresponsible nuclear program, the most important player clearly is China. So far, many Americans have been understandably dismayed by Beijing’s apparent reluctance to do more than criticize Pyongyang for its disruptive behavior. But is the Chinese response to the crisis as glove-soft as it [...]

WASHINGTON — As I made my way from one national-security discussion to another, the conversation never strayed far from an imposing topic: the 21st century’s emerging or renascent powers. Whether Americans like it or not, they must share influence with several countries that have risen in prominence, notably China, India and Russia.

DANSHUI, Taiwan — In the distance lies China, the regional behemoth that has risen to global prominence in a little more than a generation and a top contender for the short list of critical foreign-policy issues facing the next U.S. president. More specifically, the China-Taiwan relationship deserves special priority, for it holds the key to [...]

TAIPEI — If peace ever crosses the Taiwan Strait, the benefits will extend far beyond Beijing and Taipei in terms of regional security, stability and prosperity. Are the top contenders for president in the United States thinking about that possibility?

What will the dragon breathe in the years after the 2008 Summer Olympics conclude?
Will it be fresh air in the form of expanded economic reform, political change and environmental concern – or rhetorical smoke to continue justifying an overly intrusive governmental hand?

Some critics have described President George W. Bush’s just-concluded swing through Europe as irrelevant, contending that the region essentially disregards him. Moreover, the critics continue, his visit bordered on delusional. After years of tension, how could Bush possibly have had the nerve to walk the streets of European capitals with such confidence and toss out [...]

When a country has a complicated, problematic and history-burdened relationship with another nation – as China has with Japan – one would anticipate strained ties at best. Why, then, has Chinese President Hu Jintao undertaken a state visit to Tokyo?

WASHINGTON – Although I sympathize with the Tibetans here who have protested President George W. Bush’s plans to attend the Olympics’ opening ceremony in Beijing this August, the options for world leaders go well beyond the two extremes of gleeful participation in and angry avoidance of the games.
In an attempt to justify his decision, Bush [...]

At the beginning of President George W. Bush’s first term, many Chinese wanted to know: Why does Bush dislike us? Is China losing the United States?
Now, as Bush’s second term begins to wind down, the current issue of Foreign Affairs provocatively asks: “Is China Winning Asia?”