What is the history behind marriage matchmaking in China and where is it headed?
Will a Mouse Find Malaysia Airlines Flight 370?
The search for MH370 is proof that crowdsourcing will become a vital part of aid and rescue efforts in the future.
Geopolitics at a Beijing Teahouse
Different worldviews informed by different geographical points of reference.
Is China’s One-Party Rule Undemocratic?
Can one-party rule enable consensus, competence, the competition of ideas and a can-do spirit?
Two Shepherds, Two Cultural Revolutions?
Comparing the agendas and performance of Pope Francis and China’s Xi Jinping.
U.S. Energy “Security” — Beware False Comfort
Reliance on a phony form of “energy security” locks the U.S. into a world of diminishing returns.
Shortsighted Russia, Patient China
Ten ways Putin’s Crimea intervention re-opens the door to territorial claims against Russia.
Crimea: What Could Have Been
Vasily Aksenov’s 1979 utopian novel “The Island of Crimea” in today’s context


























