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President Obama's address to the United Nations General Assembly neatly captured his strengths and weaknesses, from his admirable focus on the difficulties involved in meeting global challenges to his easy solipsism. On Tuesday, he delivered a widely praised address on climate change, one that offered a message that was hopeful and urgent in equal measure. In one memorable passage, the president noted the United States "has done more to promote clean energy and reduce carbon pollution in the last eight months than at any other time in… more

Right now is a great time to be an environmentalist in China--especially if you're a foreigner. The politicians here care, at last, about your issues.

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Jeffrey Lewis is director of the Nuclear Strategy and Non-proliferation Initiative at the Washington, DC-based New America Foundation. Their paper was published as ...

A panel of China experts joins guest host Susan Page to discuss the first round of high-level talks between the Obama administration and Chinese officials in Washington, D.C.

Guests

Albert Keidel, former acting director of the U.S.Treasury Department's Office of East Asian Nations, currently teaches a graduate course on China's economy at Georgetown University.

Columns of paramilitary police are now keeping a tenuous peace in Urumqi, the western Chinese city where more than 1,000 Uighurs rioted ten days ago in the bloodiest clash in decades between the authorities and the Turkic-speaking Muslim minority group.

On Sunday, more than 1,000 Uighurs clashed with police in the western Chinese city of Urumqi -- marking one of the country's bloodiest ethnic conflicts in recent years.

On Wednesday, June 17, 2009, Ambassador Frank Lavin discussed U.S.-China relations under the Obama administration with Steve Clemons, director of the New America Foundation’s American Strategy Program.

Lavin explained that policy changes are occurring both in the United States and in China, partly due to the change in U.S. administration but also due to the global economic crisis.

How can a dysfunctional and unsustainable relationship between the U.S. and China be reformed?