By Steve Clemons

Update:  The 2nd day of the Green Intelligence Forum starts this morning and can be watched live on the screen below.

After former World Bank President James Wolfensohn had taken over in 2005 as chairman of the Quartet a representative body comprised of the United States, the European Union, Russia, and the United Nations and focused on moving the cause of Israel-Palestine peace forward, he once said that the only way to know whether progress was…

Susan Bayh, wife of former Senator Evan Bayh, and I took turns softening up this adorable camel who pretty much hung out with us until the food bell rang. No kicking of spitting. Just an extremely sweet camel.

(photo credit: James Fallows) I had to laugh when I saw this post by my colleague James Fallows noting that the US edition of China Daily now had a news-box right outside our offices at The Atlantic.

Flying from Xian to Beijing this week, I spotted the books above at the airport book shop.  They were the marquis offering in the place — front, center of the store.

photo credit: Steve Clemons I’m in China this week and have had limited internet access (and time) to post while bouncing between meetings and cities.

During the years following the fall of the Berlin Wall, Germany traded the geostrategic insecurity of a Cold War fault line and divided nation for a unified country with high levels of economic tension.  The transfer payments from the West to the East were politically and economically stressful.

Off to China this morning. Shanghai is first part of trip. Feeling a lot like Oakley right now.

\ Tom Donilon was sworn in as the 23rd National Security Advisor on the 8th of October last year — and though it’s a bit late in the month to pounce on the anniversary date of his ascension, I am putting together an article looking at whether America’s foreign and national security platforms have been…

The congressional “Super Committee” by most accounts is working feverishly to get some sort of deal that would avoid triggering an automatic $1.2 trillion set of cuts across government accounts.