From the start of the global economic crisis, it has become clear that a new world order has emerged. While the world is increasingly interconnected, it is specifically the U.S.-China relationship that will determine how and if our leaders can meet the major global challenges of the 21st century.

Banning Garrett, director of the Program on Asia at the Atlantic Council, published an article at the Huffington Post.  The article, entitled "The Changing Climate of Diplomacy," argues that the United States and China ought to cooperate on a new climate change accord, or else the Copenhagen talks will not succeed.  The full text can be read at the New Atlanticist.

The Atlantic Council hosted a dialogue on U.S.-China Cooperation on Low-Emissions Coal Technologies in Beijing from June 24-26.

When two countries have gone to war over an unresolved border and one of these announces the deployment of 50,000-60,000 troops and nuclear-capable combat planes along this border, the reader would likely expect the second country to sit up and take notice.  This is exactly what happened over the last month between India and China.

In the 2007 article “Why We Fight over Foreign Policy” in the Hoover Institution journal Policy Review, Henry Nau writes: “Why do we disagree so stridently about foreign policy? An easy answer is because leaders lie about events aboard.”

"Max" Yu Tsung-chi, a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council, published an editorial entitled "A Constructivist Take on the Strait" in the Taipei Times.

Sino-European relations are a one-way street going in China’s direction.  A recent report describes it as “unconditional engagement,” a “policy that gives China access to all the economic and other benefits of cooperation with Europe while asking for little in return.” 

Peter Beck, a nonresident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council, published an op-ed analyzing the unfortunate recent suicide of former South Korean president Roh Moo-hyun.  The article, "Confronting the 'republic of suicides,'" appeared in the Korea Herald.

There is an all-too-common practice in Washington punditry of attributing strategic intentions to other countries without any apparent evidence.  A recent example is the column by Dan Blumenthal and Robert Kagan in the Washington Post, “What to Do About North Korea.”  

An encounter between the  USNS Victorious and Chinese trawlers in the Yellow Sea marks the fifth such incident within two months, China Post reports.

Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman asserted that "a couple of Chinese fishing vessels maneuvered close to the Victorious in what was an unsafe manner.” Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Ma Zhaoxu countered, "The fact is that the USNS Victorious conducted activities in China's exclusive economic zone in the Yellow Sea without China's permission. China has expressed concern over this issue. We demand that the United States take effective measures to prevent similar acts from happening."