Chinas peaceful rising LOS ANGELES A metaphor for our dramatic world geopolitical change occurred in Melbourne at the prestigious Australian Open.
Bruce Lee syndrome LOS ANGELES Looked at from all the angles, China has the capacity to prove a far tougher challenger for the United States than even al-Qaida and other like-minded evildoers.
Something positive happening with Koreas LOS ANGELES You have to be dumber than a brick to believe that the North Korean problem can be solved by anything other than diplomacy and negotiation. Even the Macho Man of South Korea seems to have been hit with a bout of annoying but inescapa..
Lawrence of America goes to Arabia DUBAI From the Malay Peninsula in Southeast Asia to the Arabian Peninsula in the Middle East, it is the wise rulers who know two of the most basic rules of modern economic development.
Shortlist of the totally unexpected LOS ANGELES Sometimes truly strange things happen in life. For those of us in Americas West Coast, who would have thought that Jerry Brown would become Governor of California again?
JFKs Ted Sorensen LOS ANGELES As far as I know, Nebraska-born Theodore Ted Sorensen, who died on Oct. 31 at 82, disagreed with me only twice. He was right both times, of course.
Obama can grab opportunities in Asia LOS ANGELES Over the next week or so, our troubled American President, fresh from that unmistakable midterm elections rebuke, will hit the foreign-relations trail. All the stops are in Asia, the worlds fastest rising region that is perhaps slo..
Are China, Japan heading for collision? LOS ANGELES The people of China and Japan deserve better leadership at the top than they have been getting. The ineptitude of their governments has been close to astonishing.
Avoiding war with China LOS ANGELES Genuine leadership is always eye-catching, and sometimes history-making. This otherwise commonplace observation is especially true when it comes to the matter of war between China and Taiwan. This unthinkable explosion would, if it d..
Doing right thing for Muslim world NEW YORK CITY Whats the one major issue the West absolutely and totally must get right in the years ahead? If the obvious answer is not peaceful international relations with a fast-rising and increasingly assertive China, then it has to be the..
Dangers on high seas of East Asia LOS ANGELES The Obama administration is raising the U.S. profile in the South China Sea and in the newly troubled seas around the Korean Peninsula. Its decisions are sound enough, and they have been put forth carefully and with proportionality. ..
Who are greatest leaders of Asia? LOS ANGELES _ The ineffable quality of leadership is so hard to define. But everyone knows we need it badly, especially in difficult times; and while the experts tend to quarrel over definitions,
Tokyos cirque du soleil Japan's Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama resigned last week. Big deal.
Democracy and UK election LOS ANGELES Democracy is not always decisive, and even when it is it doesn't invariably produce results that optimize the public good. We all know that, right?
So, Ready for War With North Korea? LOS ANGELES Sometimes less is more a lot more.
Hacked by China Caring about China can be hard to do. Many Chinese, for starters, resent the caring of others as an intrusion, especially when the outside care-givers don't agree with something China has done. That happens more than occasionally.
Too Hot for Chinas Kitchen It is one of the positives of my largely happy life that I have never found myself in the field of public relations with a client like Beijing. It's not that there aren't many wondrously good stories about the People's Republic of China fabulous..
