By Ted Galen Carpenter

China won't risk pressuring North Korea unless it fears Japan and South Korea might develop bombs of their own.

Attacking Libya after it gave up its arms program sent the message that America's enemies should keep their nukes.

Beijing and Tokyo aren't the only ones puffing their chests out in the Senkakus.

It's foolish for Washington to spurn an opening in Belgrade's position on the status of Kosovo.

It's the Asian powers, not the United States, that should worry about balancing North Korea's growing missile capability.

Exporting a failed strategy to Mexico won't work.

U.S. leaders need to abandon their binary mentality and recognize that Washington will not always get its way.