BRUSSELS -- For a supposedly stillborn concept, talk of a G2 -- actual or potential -- has proved remarkably durable. Why, despite the implausibility of the notion, does it continue? Anyone looking for signs of an emerging Sino-American global condominium in Tuesday’s comprehensive joint declaration would indeed have had slim pickings.

WASHINGTON --  As U.S. President Barack Obama visits Asia, many European and American observers have embraced the narrative that an emerging, China-centric New Asian Order will reshape world politics, relegating the West to inexorable decline and marginalization.

ANKARA — On October 31, I watched history unfold as Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu, flanked by the Turkish and Iraqi Kurdish flags, gave a joint press conference with Massoud Barzani, the president of the Kurdistan regional government, and delivered messages of friendship and peace.

In the current, highly-animated Turkish debate, the only sure point of agreement is that Turkey is changing, and changing rapidly.