What the Chinese Heard
Carolynne Wheeler is a Canadian journalist based in Beijing. Her work has also appeared in The Daily Telegraph (UK), The Guardian (UK), Monocle magazine (UK) and The Globe and Mail (Canada).
Obama is drawing fire in the U.S. for what he didn't say to Chinese authorities. Carolynne Wheeler reports from Beijing on how the government restricted what its citizens didn't hear.
Obama's Diplomatic Journey
The Daily Beast is dedicated to news and commentary, culture, and entertainment. We carefully curate the web’s most essential stories and bring you original must-reads from our talented contributors.
After the president called for a stronger relationship with China, he meets President Hu Jintao today to discuss the country's financing of U.S. debt. VIEW OUR GALLERY of his Asia trip.
Can He Wow the World Again?
Reihan Salam is a fellow at the New America Foundation and the co-author of Grand New Party.
No matter what the president says at the U.N. General Assembly, he's doomed to disappoint his foreign admirers-and maybe even spark a surge of anti-Americanism.
President Obama and first lady Michelle Obama welcome France's President Nicolas Sarkozy and his wife Carla Bruni as they arrive for the G-20 summi...
Obama will put the U.S. on a new course toward climate change with a speech to the U.N. today. But with China and Europe already skeptical, is it too little too late?
China's Dangerous Delusion
Paul Mooney, a freelance journalist, has been reporting from Beijing since 1994.
Beijing's response to the Uighur massacre is just like its reaction to last year's Tibet uprising-self-denial and scapegoating. Until the party honchos realize their own abusive rule is to blame, they'll face increasing challenges to their power.
Lloyd Grove is editor at large for The Daily Beast. He is also a frequent contributor to New York magazine and was a contributing editor for Condé Nast Portfolio. He wrote a gossip column for the New York Daily News from 2003 to 2006. Prior to that, he wrote the Reliable Source column for the Washington Post, where he spent 23 years covering politics, the media, and other subjects.
Leslie H. Gelb, a former New York Times columnist and senior government official, is author of Power Rules: How Common Sense Can Rescue American Foreign Policy (HarperCollins 2009), a book that shows how to think about and use power in the 21st century. He is president emeritus of the Council on Foreign Relations.
Christopher Buckley's books include Supreme Courtship, The White House Mess, Thank You for Smoking, Little Green Men, and Florence of Arabia. He was chief speechwriter for Vice President George H.W. Bush, and is editor-at-large of ForbesLife magazine. His new book is Losing Mum and Pup, a memoir. Buckley's Daily Beast column is the winner of an Online Journalism Award in the category of Online Commentary.
The Daily Beast is dedicated to news and commentary, culture, and entertainment. We carefully curate the web’s most essential stories and bring you original must-reads from our talented contributors.
Peter Beinart, senior political writer for The Daily Beast, is a professor of journalism and political science at City University of New York and a senior fellow at the New America Foundation.
Jeffrey Koterba is an acclaimed syndicated political cartoonist. Since joining the Omaha World-Herald in 1989, he has been a finalist for Editorial Cartoonist of the Year from the National Cartoonists Society and has placed second in the National Headliner Awards. His work is distributed through King Features Syndicate to 400 newspapers nationwide, and has appeared in such publications as the New York Times, the Chicago Tribune, and the Washington Post, among others.
Partner Sites: Expedia| Hotels| Hotwire| Urbanspoon| Vimeo
