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Friday, November 20, 2009 at 10:00 am

Obama in China. Healthcare crunch time in the Senate. And the mammogram controversy rages on. Our weekly news roundtable goes behind the headlines.

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Thursday, November 12, 2009 at 10:00 am

President Obama makes his first trip to Asia. We’ll look at his agenda, and the rising power of the East.

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Thursday, October 29, 2009 at 10:00 am

Asian countries pour money and resources into higher education, while American universities go begging. We’ll ask former MIT president Charles Vest, and more, where this goes.

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Wednesday, September 30, 2009 at 10:00 am

Will China be the world’s clean-energy superpower? We’ll look at “Green China,” and whether the U.S. is losing the clean-tech race.

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Thursday, September 24, 2009 at 10:00 am

Is the global economic crisis derailing globalization? Should it? As the G-20 sits down in Pittsburgh, we’ll talk tires, chickens, and trade.

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Thursday, July 23, 2009 at 11:00 am

A true story of gangs, human smuggling, and the American dream in New York’s Chinatown. We’ll talk with the author of “The Snakehead.”

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Friday, June 5, 2009 at 10:00 am

Obama in Egypt. GM in bankruptcy. And a French airliner goes down. Our weekly news roundtable goes behind the headlines.

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Tuesday, June 2, 2009 at 3:06 pm

In today’s first hour, James Fallows noted that the Chinese government is avoiding any mention of the 20th anniversary, on June 4, of the Tiananmen Square massacre. The event is effectively being erased from collective memory.

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Tuesday, June 2, 2009 at 10:00 am

We’ll look at America’s banker — China — and what Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner is bringing home from Beijing.

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Monday, April 6, 2009 at 10:00 am

A year ago this month, On Point went to Shanghai. And what a year it’s been. We’ll turn our microphones back to China, for the Chinese view now.

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Thursday, April 2, 2009 at 10:00 am

They’re calling it “GhostNet” — a vast cyber-spying network, suspected to be run from China. We talk with the computer sleuths who uncovered it, and ask them how they did it.

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Wednesday, March 18, 2009 at 11:00 am

We talk with Jan Wong about her search for the woman she betrayed during China’s Cultural Revolution — and what she found.

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Monday, January 26, 2009 at 11:00 am

The Atlantic’s James Fallows is back from China as America transfers power to a new president. We’ll ask how it all looks to the China maven.

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Monday, January 5, 2009 at 10:00 am

With falling exports, closing factories, and fear of social upheaval, we’ll look at what China does now, with top observers in Shanghai and Beijing.

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Monday, November 24, 2008 at 10:00 am

Crunch time on Tibet. China smacks down autonomy. Tibetans talk of independence. The Dalai Lama says be careful. We’ll look into the Himalayas.

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Friday, October 10, 2008 at 11:00 am

The women behind much of the word economy. We look inside the lives of China’s factory girls.

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Thursday, August 21, 2008 at 12:08 pm

Listening to our first hour this morning, I was struck by several comments about the glossy postcard image of China as presented on TV.

 
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Thursday, August 21, 2008 at 10:00 am

From the athletes, to media coverage, to China’s image, we’ll take stock of what we’ve seen in Beijing.

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Monday, August 11, 2008 at 10:00 am

China’s superstar pianist Lang Lang is 26 years old, and the face of a new China. He had a big role in the Olympic opening ceremonies, and he joins us from Beijing.

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Friday, August 1, 2008 at 11:00 am

We take one last look at the backstreets of old Beijing, with an American who lived there, before the Olympics plow their memory under.

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On Point Today
The Pandora Effect
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We’ll talk with the founder of Pandora, the online music service that claims it knows what you’ll want to hear.

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Week in the News
Friday, November 20, 2009 image

Obama in China. Healthcare crunch time in the Senate. And the mammogram controversy rages on. Our weekly news roundtable goes behind the headlines.

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Recent Shows
Poker: America’s Game
Thursday, November 19, 2009 image

Poker and American history. How the game of presidents, cowboys, gangsters, and online gamblers helped shape America.

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Google vs. Murdoch
Thursday, November 19, 2009 image

Rupert Murdoch wants to block the search giant from scooping free content from his newspapers. We’ll look at the staredown.

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On Point Blog
Michael Wolff and Jeff Jarvis on Murdoch v. Google

We had a rousing discussion about Google vs. Murdoch, and what it says about the whole future of news, with Michael Wolff, Jeff Jarvis, and Steven Brill. Here’s what Wolff and Jarvis had to say about the delusions of both Murdoch and Google.

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Video: Google CEO Eric Schmidt

Last week, host Tom Ashbrook was on stage with Google CEO Eric Schmidt, asking him about some of the biggest technology and business issues of our time.

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California, here we come! And we need your questions!

On Point is headed west!
No, no. Not for good. Only for one show. But it’s a very special show!  The NPR station in Thousand Oaks, California – KCLU – is celebrating their 15th anniversary. We’re lucky to have been on their airwaves for nearly seven years, and they invited us out west to host a live [...]

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