Outside the Beltway

Representatives from 195 nations reached an agreement supposedly devoted to addressing global climate change, but it’s really more hype than anything else.

For the first time since Chang Kai-Shek escaped across the Taiwan Strait, the leaders of the People’s Republic of China and the Republic of China will meet this weekend.

Thanks mostly to well-founded demographic concerns, China is ending the ‘One Child’ policy, but it is probably too late for them to avoid the consequences of the forty year program.

Time is running out for Joe Biden to make a decision about running for President, and it’s still not clear what he’ll do.

Yesterday’s stock market drop led some Republican candidates to say some particularly dumb things.

There are again reports of Chinese frustration with the Kim regime in North Korea, but change is unlikely to happen in the DPRK until Beijing is ready to let it happen.

A scandal erupted when the Chinese people learned their leaders were flying first class and staying in five-star hotels. Problem solved!

China’s Communist Party has announced a significant change to the nation’s infamous “One Child” policy.

We’re almost certainly going to launch punitive strikes against Syria. They’ll almost certainly be ineffective.

In response to North Korean saber rattling and the rise of China, Japan is reassessing it’s military posture

China’s finance minister has hinted that economic growth may fall far below 7% in the second half of the year.

Does it matter if political leaders like each other on some personal level? Sometimes it does.

Denied her chance at being Secretary of State, Susan Rice will be moving to a position that is arguably just as important in shaping American foreign policy.

China’s government may be more “efficient,” but it’s hardly a model for the rest of the world.

Is the United States a serious country? Should we be?