Senator Jim Webb (D-VA), chairman of the Senate Subcommittee on East Asian and Pacific Affairs, discusses issues facing the United States and East Asian countries, drawing on observations from his recent trip to examine U.S. national security and foreign policy toward the region.

Senator Jim Webb (D-VA), chairman of the Senate Subcommittee on East Asian and Pacific Affairs, discusses issues facing the United States and East Asian countries, drawing on observations from his recent trip to examine U.S. national security and foreign policy toward the region.

Joshua Kurlantzick reviews Mara Hvistendahl's Unnatural Selection: Choosing Boys Over Girls, and the Consequences of a World Full of Men.

Jerome A. Cohen asks whether foreign lawyers care about the suppression of China's human rights lawyers.

Matthew Slaughter explains how stronger Chinese protection of intellectual property rights could create American jobs.

Joshua Kurlantzick reviews Mara Hvistendahl's Unnatural Selection.

Jerome A. Cohen says that in Ai Weiwei's continued detention, Chinese police are violating at will a provision of the law that allows them to hold a suspect only under strict conditions.

David S. Abraham and Meredith Ludlow examine China's strategy for becoming a global industrial leader.

Jerome A. Cohen discusses Ted Kennedy's influence on the formation of U.S. policy toward China.

Despite high-level and military-to-military talks this week and next, the U.S.-China relationship is strained because of China's growing strength and its harder line at home and abroad, says CFR's John Pomfret.

Adam Segal, author of "Advantage: How American Innovation Can Overcome the Asian Challenge," discusses the policy changes needed to achieve the Chinese ambition to move from a model of "made in China" to one of "innovated in China."

Adam Segal says that regardless of the source of recent cyber attacks on U.S. firms, the United States must work independently and cooperatively with China to reduce their threat.

Jerome A. Cohen discusses a new study that exposes China's hazy criminal justice system.

In the next round of the U.S.-China Strategic and Economic Dialogue, underway now, the two sides face difficult diplomatic issues but also a chance to jumpstart engagement on military and cybersecurity matters, writes CFR's Elizabeth Economy.

John Lee analyzes the impact of bin Laden's death on the relationship between the United States and China.

In this Markets and Democracy Brief, CFR's Elizabeth C. Economy and Jared Mondschein assess the rise of online activism in China and what it means for the country's political system.

Joshua Kurlantzick writes that the Obama administration has learned that Washington can criticize the Beijing regime on human rights while continuing to work with it on other important global issues.

Jerome A. Cohen discusses China's detention of Ai Weiwei.

Adam Segal testifies before the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations about Chinese cyber espionage and China's desire to reduce its dependence on the West for advanced technologies.