U.S. Commerce's plan to slap a 31%  tariff upon Chinese solar panel manufacturers to deter them from dumping products upon the U.S. market has thrown the communist nation into a tizzy fit full of protestations and allegations signifying nothing. If China ever learned how to play fair in trade in the first place, it wouldn't need to go through such public relations histrionics.

The U.S. government hails a glimmer of progress in its latest U.S.-China Strategic and Economic Dialogue after getting China to allow greater ownership of its firms by foreign financial interests just as the Chinese lay down new restrictions on global accounting firms operating within its borders. A step forward? Hardly, argues an AJA board member.

The Philippines' dispute with China over South China Sea maritime rights seems to have already had a negative impact on the island's economy, which depends heavily on its exports to the communist nation. The Chinese recently went a little bananas over Filipino banana imports, which were destroyed for containing pests that usually infest coconuts. 

In the wake of two scandals that rocked China, a U.S. human rights researcher wonders just how much the law matters in the communist nation. Not a lot, he concludes, if you're looking at its government but not necessarily its people, who have become more intolerant of their officials' antics.