President Barack Obama's first visit to China underscored a shifting balance of power: two giants moving closer to being equals.

President Obama has emerged from his first trip to China with few breakthroughs on important issues, such as Iran's nuclear program or China's currency.

President Obama's central message to the Chinese government and people during his first visit there as president has been a remarkably positive one.

On his first official visit to Asia, President Obama has sought to reassure China that the United States does not want to contain its rise, but rather welcomes “a strong and prosperous ... member of the community of nations.”

Probably to the disappointment of Taipei, President Barack Obama did not mention the Taiwan Relations Act as one of the four pillars of Washington's China policy, since the United States normalized relations with China in 1979.

U.S. President Barack Obama's visit to Japan brought forth renewed utterances of support of their bilateral security treaty, but the new Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) government of Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama appears determined to make it a more equal alliance.

The latest poll conducted by a local newspaper indicates that 39 percent of the respondents are currently satisfied with the performance of President Ma Ying-jeou, up 6 percent from a survey made last month amid the controversy over the government's decision to import beef from the United States.

When swine flu erupted this spring in the southwestern United States and Mexico, it had been 40 years since the last flu pandemic.

Heard about the next cold war? It doesn't involve Russia, China or even the forces of communism, but Japan.

The U.S. and Chinese economies — the world's largest and the fastest-growing major economy, respectively — have become inextricably intertwined, locked in a kind of co-dependency that neither side thinks is particularly healthy, but which for the moment neither will move to break.