China was miffed by the outcome of what we last year called the corporate "deal of the century." But shareholder interests prevailed. How often will that be said in the future?
IN THE early 1990s, when Washington debated the alternatives of engaging or containing China, some clever wits suggested a hybrid: 'congagement'. Later, former president George W. Bush proposed that China was a 'strategic competitor'. Now, no one disputes the notion that China and the United States are strategic partners.
Agreement to the Treaty of Amity and Cooperation by the United States indicates America has re-engaged with Southeast Asia and will regain interests in the region, a Chinese analyst said Thursday.
China is on its way to surpassing the U.S. as the world's largest manufacturer far sooner than expected. The question is, does that matter?
Former American secretaries of defence seldom get such widespread obituaries as Robert S McNamara.
Indian academics are up in arms over what they regard as provocative incitement of the country’s demise by a Chinese essayist.
Hillary Clinton has warned North Korea relations with the US will not improve until it engages in dialogue with South Korea and ends its nuclear ambitions.
President Barack Obama courted warmer relations with America's snowy northern neighbor Thursday, declining to ask war-weary Canada to do more in Afghanistan, promising he won't allow a protectionist creep into U.S. trade policy and talking reassuringly around thorny energy issues.
The State Department called the expulsion of the second U.S. diplomat from Ecuador in just over a week "unjustified," rejecting charges the diplomats meddled in Ecuador's internal affairs.
Barack Obama has named physics Nobel Prize winner Steven Chu as his energy secretary and tasked him with finding alternatives to fossil fuels.