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Two perspectives on where American diplomats must go next.

For Beijing, the past is exceptionally useful, and usefully exceptional.

The United States has many strengths. The question is how many it will squander in coming years.

The flailing 'Great Wall' aspires to be a bicultural extravaganza. The result is a mess.

In a call with China's President, Trump recognized, or at least nodded at, the one-China policy he'd earlier questioned.

The Communist Party's is responding with a sweeping ideological crackdown on its universities.

Beijing has been seriously outmaneuvering Washington for years. Trump is off to a lousy start, but here’s how he can turn it around.

Trump will need to work with Beijing, or we risk living in a world that the Chinese Communist Party will create.

Enforcement of the laudable rule will remain an issue, while ivory demand in countries like Japan and the U.S. is actually rising.

We were both disabled by polio, but I was adopted by Americans. Returning to China 10 years later showed how sharply our destinies had diverged.

Ulaanbaatar just welcomed the Dalai Lama, despite warnings from Beijing.

A Faustian pact with Beijing would almost certainly make user behavior around the world visible to Chinese state security.