Got an invite to speak at the Institute of International Studies at Tsinghua U. in Beijing. My guess is that it would be part of their just-launched "Global Vision Lectures" series.

The institute's director wrote a forward to the Chinese edition of PNM (missed that in my careful perusals of the characters involved . . ., although, I must say, "Thomas P.M. Barnett" looks beautiful in Chinese). In the invitation to speak, he said, "This book has attracted wide attention from strategists and IR scholars in China."

Good to hear. Time now to sell the Chinese edition of Blueprint for Action.

Naturally, I said yes.