Stephen Biddle,Senior Fellow for Defense Policy at the Council on Foreign Relations discusses the decisions facing President Obama regarding Afghanistan as well as neighboring Pakistan.

VOA: standard.2009.10.15

Lee Gee-dong is a senior fellow at South Korea's Institute for National Security Strategy.

VOA: standard.2009.10.23

Zhou Shijian, A Senior Fellow at the Center for U.S.China Relations at Tsinghua University,agrees.

VOA: standard.2010.06.21

Nicholas Lardy, an economist and senior fellow at the Washington-based Peterson Institute, says China's unwillingness to adopt derivative loans and other high-risk financial products helped to shield it from the impact of the world economic downturn.

VOA: standard.2009.11.10