By Invitation

Letters

As China rises, must others bow?

No, says Joseph Nye, of Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. The China Bill Clinton will discover during his visit this week is a country more concerned with economic growth than military power, and unlikely to be able to assert leadership in the region so long as America stays involved*

Yes to Europe, No to federalism

David Owen explains how he reconciles his pro-Europeanism with opposition to British membership of a single European currency. Lord Owen was Britain’s foreign secretary from 1977-79 and EU co-chairman of the international conference on the former Yugoslavia from 1992-95. (A longer version of this article is available.)