[This piece originally appeared at Asia Times Online on June 6, 2013.  It can be reposted if ATOl is credited and a link provided.] The expert consensus is that the Barack Obama-Xi Jinping summit at Sunnylands, California is something of a relationship-building nothingburger. The summit was arranged on short notice, there is no detailed agenda,... Read More

I make some basic assumptions about the China cyberinstrusion issue: First, that the Chinese program of industrial espionage, both conventional and cyber-based, is immense and it's gotten out of hand.  The previous justification--that, as a matter of national security, the PRC had to obtain by hook or by crook vital technologies that the West and... Read More