As I read about the "capture" of Pol Pot this week, I thought back to one day in 1969 in Cambodia when I had presented Prince Norodom Sihanouk with a...
As the world awaits the dramatic turnover of Hong Kong to China within days, the rich but vulnerable little nation of Taiwan is alternately calm and nervous, stoic and impatient....
Over an elegant lunch here, investment banker Herbert Hui was telling some of the untold story behind the turnover of Hong Kong on July 1. "What's important in a new...
Anyone confused about the contradictions of this rapidly changing land will find clarifying solace in the words of Sun Tzu, the great 4th-Century B.C. Chinese strategist. "To fight and conquer...
Even on the ancient Great Wall, avid young Chinese businessmen walk impatiently back and forth these days, glued to their cellular phones and doing "business." In the offices of the...
Whatever happened to immigration reform? Only last year, it seemed that America was finally ready to take a tough but dispassionate look at the citizenship mess. Now that hope has...
A funny thing is happening on the way to NATO expansion. While the United States and Europe have their strategic eyes fixed north, where they will almost surely bring into...
Multilateralism: You are surely the most adored new concept in American defense thinking these days. You are an ingenue who took her place on the world stage once the Cold...
Word is getting around, as the amazing demonstrations in Belgrade continue, that we are witnessing some "new kind of revolution"--a struggle in cyberspace, perhaps, or some kind of new "Internationale"...
When the Cold War ended so astonishingly in the late 1980s, most countries simply assumed that the United Nations would naturally lead in creating a new world. Then when Bill...