Environmental disaster is the gravest threat to China's continued development. That's according to me, but it is not some wacko view.

The President? Hmmm, I wonder who that might be? Could it be, perhaps, the sitting two-term incumbent of the same party holding its convention? The person whose economic and military policies shape the environment the next president will deal with? As best I can tell, in the tens of thousands of words making up the combined remarks of John McCain, Sarah Palin, Rudy Giuliani, Mike Huckabee, Mitt Romney, Fred Thompson, and Lindsay Graham, the Name That Must Not Be Uttered appeared exactly once.

There's no longer any surprise in noting that China has grave environmental problems.

Our military plans should be based on the assumption of unpredictability, rather than on carefully drawn, static models of the world.

I am about as pro-Google a person as you're going to find in the media. I've had friends at all levels of the company since its founding, and still do now.

Contrary to what you might think, China's economy is relatively less efficient, and more polluting, than those of rich countries.

The whole point of constitutional democracy is the peaceful transfer of power; of Al Gore passing the baton to George W. Bush, even though that election was very suspiciously called.