Zhao Jinglun (Dec. 31, 1923—Jan. 24, 2015) was a Nieman Fellow, class of 1981. He was the chief opinions writer for The Asian-American Times (NYC) and a columnist for the Hong Kong Economic Journal.
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry held informal talks in his home with China's State Councilor Yang Jiechi, showing the maturity of the two countries' relations.
Though recent revisions to U.S.-Japanese defense cooperation are supposedly aimed at maintaining peace in the Asia-Pacific region and beyond, Washington is using Japan to stir up trouble in the region in order to contain a rising China.
The United States' coalition with the Gulf monarchies to fight IS in Syria is only going to make a bad situation worse. U.S. blind faith in military power in the 21st century is against the current of history.